Dynamic Pricing and Supply Coordination with Reimbursement Contract under Random Yield and Demand

Guo Li, Lun Ran, Xiaohang Yue and Zhao-Hua Wang ()

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-10

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This paper investigates the dynamic pricing and supply chain coordination in a decentralized system that consists of one supplier and one manufacturer, in which both the market demand and production yield are stochastic. We show that the centralized expected profit is jointly concave in the production quantity and order quantity when the price is ex-ante selected. We also derive the equilibrium strategies in the decentralized system and prove that the entire profit of supply chain is inevitably lower than that under centralized system. Based on this, we propose a reimbursement contract to coordinate the decentralized supply chain so as to achieve the maximized profit. It is worth mentioning that, under reimbursement contract, the equilibrium production and order quantities are irrelevant to the manufacturer's risk sharing coefficient but are only determined by the supplier’s risk sharing coefficient.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/631232

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