Saeed Alaei

TL;DR: The supply chain studied in this paper, includes one vendor (central depot) and arbitrary number of buyers and a revenue sharing contract is considered with the goal of optimizing three objectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cost sharing contract is proposed to achieve a perfect coordination of the channel and a Nash bargaining model is utilized to determine the fraction of local advertising costs shared by the manufacturer and to discuss how the channel members should split the extra profit obtained by moving to a cooperation case.

TL;DR: In this paper, a decentralized supply chain in which a manufacturer sells a common generic product through two traditional and online retailers under free-riding market is studied. But the authors assume that the traditional retailer provides the value added services but the online retailer does not.

TL;DR: In this article, a game theoretic optimization problem using game theory in an advertising environment where decisions regarding the advertising expenditure of a supply chain members must be determined is addressed. And the possibility of coordination via a two-way subsidy strategy is discussed under two scenarios in which either the participation rates are exogenously specified or the members endogenously decide on these rates.

TL;DR: In this article, a production inventory problem is considered in a two-level supply chain and the problem is formulated as a Stackelberg game, and then, the retail fi xed mark-up policy is examined in order to investigate its performance on supply chain.