Yong-Wu Zhou

TL;DR: In this article, a two-echelon supply chain is considered, where a manufacturer sells products through both her own online channel and a traditional retailer, and the retailer provides customers with some pre-sales services, which have positive impact on the market demand.

TL;DR: In this paper, a lot-sizing model for deteriorating items with a current-stock-dependent demand and delay in payments was developed, where a retailer who purchases the items enjoys a fixed credit period offered by his/her supplier and, in turn, also offers a credit period to his/his customers in order to promote the market competition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the pricing and quantity decisions of a two-echelon system with a manufacturer who supplies a single product to two competitive retailers, and analyzed the effects of the duopolistic retailers' different competitive behaviors (Cournot, collusion, and Stackelberg) on the optimal decisions of the manufacturer and the duopoly retailers themselves.

TL;DR: A deterministic inventory model with inventory-dependent demand rate and two separate warehouses is developed to help the decision-maker to make the decision whether or not to rent other warehouses.

TL;DR: Investigation of pricing/ordering issues in a dyadic supply chain, in which a core supplier sells products through a budget-constrained retailer, shows that when the retailer takes the risk of uncertain market solely, the retailer’s fairness concerns are beneficial for supply chain to improve the performance.