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Inventory Management (Deterministic Model) Coordination Mechanisms for a Distribution System with One Supplier and Multiple Retailers. Prof. Dr. Jinxing Xie Department of Mathematical Sciences Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China http://faculty.math.tsinghua.edu.cn/~jxie
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Inventory Management (Deterministic Model)Coordination Mechanisms for a Distribution System with One Supplier and Multiple Retailers Prof. Dr. Jinxing Xie Department of Mathematical Sciences Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China http://faculty.math.tsinghua.edu.cn/~jxie Email: jxie@ math.tsinghua.edu.cn Voice: (86-10)62787812 Fax: (86-10)62785847 Office: Rm. 1202, New Science Building
Background: Supply Chain Structure • Fangruo Chen, Awi Federgruen, Y.S. Zheng. Coordination Mechanisms for a Distribution System with One Supplier and Multiple Retailers, MS 2001, 47/5, 693-708 Ti, pi (or di) T0 w
Problems: Coordination Mechanism Centralized Decision Decentralized Decision Can order-quantity discount scheme coordinate the supply chain (the distribution system)? Definition. A contract (scheme, mechanism) is said to coordinate the supply chain if the set of supply chain optimal actions is a Nash equilibrium, i.e., no firm has a profitable unilateral deviation from the set of supply chain optimal actions.
Decentralized Decision: Stackelberg Game Retailer i’s problem di (w) Ti (w) (12) The supplier’s problem
(1) (…,-2,-1,0,1,2,…) Decentralized Decision: Algorithm Fangruo Chen; Awi Federgruen; Yu-Sheng Zheng. NEAR-OPTIMAL PRICING AND REPLENISHMENT STRATEGIES FOR A RETAIL / DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM.OR, 2001, 49/6, 839-853.
(1) (1) (…,-2,-1,0,1,2,…) Centralized Solution Fangruo Chen; Awi Federgruen; Yu-Sheng Zheng. OR, 2001, 49/6, 839-853
Pay to the supplier: retailer i Coordination Mechanisms (2)
Property of the Contract • Notes • The scheme is by no means unique. • If {Kis } are retailer-specific, the pricing scheme fails to be uniform across all retailers.
Proof: Supplier’s Problem Average payment from retailers to supplier Average cost of the supplier Profit function of the supplier
When a new retailer comes … Proof. (Omitted)
Review of this lecture • Distribution system • centralized vs. decentralized control • order-quantity discount scheme • coordination mechanism • Any other simpler coordination mechanisms? • How about other system? • general system • information asymmetry