How to Implement Return Policies in a Two-Echelon Supply Chain? by Wei Hu, Jianbin Li

“…We integrate a retailer's return policy and a supplier's buyback policy within a modeling framework. …”
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Research on the Fresh Agricultural Product Supply Chain Coordination with Supply Disruptions by Sun Guohua

“…This paper develops a dynamic model in a one-supplier-one-retailer fresh agricultural product supply chain that experiences supply disruptions during the planning horizon. …”
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Trade in Lithuania under Rule of the Nazis by Justinas Braslauskas

“…It was obviously demonstrated by the establishment of German companies in the region as well as by giving most of the wholesale and larger-scale retail businesses at those companies' disposal. In spite of the fact that it was permitted to re-privatise the smaller retail businesses which had been nationalised by the Soviet power, both retail and wholesale trade in Lithuania during the Nazis' occupation was moribund due to the scarcity of goods and transport and unworkable wage and price policy. …”
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The Complexity Analysis for Price Game Model of Risk-Averse Supply Chain Considering Fairness Concern by Huang Yi-min, Li Qiu-xiang, Zhang Yu-hao

“…This paper, considering risk aversion and fair concern, establishes a dynamic price game model of a dual-channel supply chain in which dual-channel retailer sells products through traditional channel and online channel and the online retailer only sells products through online channel. …”
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Differential Game Model for a Dual-Channel Supply Chain’s Optimal Strategy under the Reference Carbon Emission Effect by Di Yu

“…Second, a cost-recovery contract occurs when the fixed fee that the retailer gives the manufacturer meets certain conditions. …”
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Inventory and Production Dynamics in a Discrete-Time Vendor-Managed Inventory Supply Chain System by Yongchang Wei, Fangyu Chen, Hongwei Wang

“…This paper presents some analytical results on production and order dynamics in the context of a discrete-time VMI supply chain system composed of one retailer and one manufacturer. We firstly derive the lower bound and upper bound on the range of inventory fluctuations for the retailer under unknown demand. …”
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SALES MARKUPS OF GUARANTEEING ELECTRICITY SUPPLIERS BY METHOD OF COMPARISON OF ANALOGUES: DECREASE OR INCREASE by O. O. Mozgovaya, Yu. V. Sheval

“…The first results of the comparative method application for fixing regulated retail markups of guaranteeing electricity suppliers in Russia have been analyzed. …”
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Contracts Adjustment under Bilateral Information Updating in a Supply Chain by Xinhui Wang, Yingsheng Su, Zihan Zhou, Yiling Fang

“…This paper investigates contracts adjustment between one manufacturer and one retailer under bilateral information updating. The manufacturer incurs uncertain production cost and the retailer faces uncertain demand, but they can acquire independent signals to update production cost and demand, respectively. …”
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The Optimal Replenishment Policy under Trade Credit Financing with Ramp Type Demand and Demand Dependent Production Rate by Juanjuan Qin, Weihua Liu

“…This paper investigates the optimal replenishment policy for the retailer with the ramp type demand and demand dependent production rate involving the trade credit financing, which is not reported in the literatures. …”
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The Optimal Strategies of Risk-Averse Newsvendor Model for a Dyadic Supply Chain with Financing Service by Jianxin Chen

“…The budget-constrained retailer as a newsvendor faces a nonnegative random demand and the financial institution provides the loan service for the retailer who is risk-averse. …”
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Analysis of the Impact of Different Forecasting Techniques on the Inventory Bullwhip Effect in Two Parallel Supply Chains with a Competition Effect by Xigang Yuan, Xiaoqing Zhang, Dalin Zhang

“…We analyzed the conditions under which the retailers should choose different types of forecasting techniques on the basis of the inventory bullwhip effect. …”
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Characterising “obesogenic” versus “protective” food consumption, and their value chain among Ghanaian households by Reginald Adjetey Annan, Nana Ama Frimpomaa Agyapong, Robert Aidoo, Charles Apprey, Linda Nana Esi Aduku, Elizabeth C Swart

“…Setting: Rural and urban communities in the Ashanti Region and selected retail/wholesale/producers nationwide. Participants: 612 households, 209 retailers and 185 wholesalers/distributors. …”
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Research on Optimization of Production Decision Based on Payment Time and Price Coordination by Yanyang Yan, Liang Yuan, Yemei Li

“…This paper focuses on the coordination and optimization between a manufacturer and multiple retailers in a supply chain. The manufacturer makes product quotes and delivery deadlines for all retailers, and each retailer selects product offers and delivery deadlines based on their own needs. …”
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Complementary Product Pricing and Service Cooperation Strategy in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain by Minglun Ren, Jiqiong Liu, Shuai Feng, Aifeng Yang

“…One manufacturer sells products simultaneously through its own online channel and the traditional retailer, and the manufacturer delivers the product’s service to the retailer in its network direct sales channel by cooperating with the retailer in the form of service cost sharing. …”
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Hybrid Transshipment Policy and Ordering Model for Multiple Periods with Customer Switching Behaviour by Qingren He, Ranran Shi, Guofeng Tang

“…Based on this framework, we demonstrate that the retailer can obtain more profits with a hybrid transshipment than without one. …”
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Green Supply Chain Decisions and Revenue-Sharing Contracts under Manufacturers’ Overconfidence by Hui Zhou, Lu Liu, Weifan Jiang, Shengsheng Li

“…Retailers benefit from collaboration, and overconfident manufacturers assume that retailers can make more profit through revenue sharing, but this model does not exist.…”
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Optimal Operation and Financing Decisions in Green Supply Chain with a Capital-Constrained Manufacturer by Lijuan Xia, Lixin Qiao, Xiaochen Ma, Yuanze Sun, Yongli Li

“…Furthermore, financing might be detrimental to the manufacturer but always beneficial to the retailer. Especially, under trade credit financing channel, the profit improvement of the retailer is higher than the manufacturer in the same financing channel, which suggests that the retailer has strong internal motivation to cooperate with the manufacturer from the perspective of financing.…”
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Manufacturer’s Green Financing and CER Decisions under the Carbon Tax Policy and Capital Constraints by Yunfeng Zhang, Tingting Song, Jingting Ma, Ying Qin

“…This study constructs a two-echelon low-carbon supply chain consisting of a single manufacturer and a retailer. The manufacturer’s initial capital is zero. …”
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A Building-Material Supply Chain Sustainable Operations under Fairness Concerns and Reference Price Benefits by Huimin Xiao, Youlei Xu, Shiwei Li

“…This paper incorporates fairness concerns and consumer reference price effects into a two-echelon building-material closed-loop supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer. By establishing four differential game models, we investigate the sustainable operations and cooperation of this supply chain. …”
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A PLS-SEM Based Approach: Analyzing Generation Z Purchase Intention Through Facebook’s Big Data by Vikas Kumar, Preeti, Shaiku Shahida Saheb, Sunil Kumari, Kanishka Pathak, Jai Kishan Chandel, Neeraj Varshney, Ankit Kumar

“…The objective of this paper is to provide a better rendition of Generation Z purchase intentions of retail products through Facebook. The study gyrated around the favorable attitude formation of Generation Z translating into intentions to purchase retail products through Facebook. …”
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