Design of the cost allocation rule for joint replenishment to an overseas warehouse with a piecewise linear holding cost rate

Xuefei Shi () and Haiyan Wang ()
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Xuefei Shi: Southeast University
Haiyan Wang: Southeast University

Operational Research, 2022, vol. 22, issue 5, No 9, 4905-4929

Abstract: Abstract To obtain higher profits, a third-party overseas warehouse increases the delivery frequency of goods by setting a holding cost rate that increases with the holding time. To reduce the cost incurred from using the third-party overseas warehouse, small cross-border e-commerce retailers form a coalition to jointly replenish the overseas warehouse. Based on cooperative game theory, this paper designs a cost allocation rule to allocate the total cost of a cooperative coalition. The cost allocation rule is proved to be in the core of the corresponding cooperative game, indicating that it satisfies individual rationality and coalition rationality. An $$(1+\epsilon )$$ ( 1 + ϵ ) -approximate algorithm is presented to search for the optimal replenishment cycle under joint replenishment. Numerical experiments show that joint replenishment can help small cross-border e-commerce retailers to reduce costs, shorten replenishment cycles, and expedite commodity turnover. Having a greater number of retailers involved in joint replenishment would help to save more costs. The average saving cost rate after cooperation can be 58% when the fixed costs are very high.

Keywords: Joint replenishment; Overseas warehouse; Cost allocation; Cooperative game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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