Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the supply chain coordination with contracts.
Numerous supply chain models are discussed. In each model, the supply chain optimal …

To gain cost advantage and market share, many firms implemented various initiatives such
as outsourced manufacturing and product variety. These initiatives are effective in a stable …

Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical
techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the …

Firms in major polluting industries have different carbon intensities. The degree of emission
asymmetry varies in different industries. In some industries, the carbon intensity of some …

We consider a simple supply-chain contract in which a manufacturer sells to a retailer facing
a newsvendor problem and the lone contract parameter is a wholesale price. We develop a …

The Government organizations provide incentives to the manufacturers for adopting green
technologies in different ways. The objective of this study is to generate a decision support …

While every firm in a supply chain bears supply risk (the cost of insufficient supply), some
firms may, even with wholesale price contracts, completely avoid inventory risk (the cost of …

In this paper, we investigate the equilibrium behavior of decentralized supply chains with
competing retailers under demand uncertainty. We also design contractual arrangements …

Supply chain management is likely to play an important role in the digital economy. In this
paper, we first describe major issues in traditional supply chain management. Next, we focus …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the information pertaining to the downstream
part of the supply chain and then reviews the upstream information. The chapter discusses …