Coordinating a three level supply chain in a price-sensitive demand environment

Santanu Sinha and S.P. Sarmah

International Journal of Operational Research, 2010, vol. 9, issue 2, 205-226

Abstract: Supply chain coordination is one of the important issues in supply chain management. In the literature, quite a good number of models have been developed to coordinate two-stage supply chain under different situations. However, there has been little research on modelling supply chain coordination in more than two stages. In this paper, we have developed a three-level coordination model with price sensitive market demand and variable production rate of the manufacturer. An all-unit quantity discount scheme is used to coordinate the entire channel and a mechanism is proposed to share the coordination benefit based on the relative bargaining power of each channel member. Finally, a numerical study is carried out to illustrate the efficacy of the model.

Keywords: supply chain coordination; quantity discount; price-sensitive demand; supply chain management; SCM; modelling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=35045 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijores:v:9:y:2010:i:2:p:205-226

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Operational Research from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().