联合经济批量模型中的损失补贴与利益分配问题研究

针对单供应商和单采购商构成的供应链系统,分采购商占主导地位和供应商占主导地位两种情形,讨论了采购商的最优订货决策与供应商的最优生产决策,以及它们合作情形下的系统最优决策,给出了采购商和供应商各自独立决策与联合决策下,它们各自的成本函数以及供应链系统的总成本函数.最后,通过比较独立决策与联合决策下采购商和供应商的成本函数,分析了联合经济批量模型中的损失补贴与利益分配问题.     

VMI模式下考虑促销努力的销量回扣契约模型研究

本文在促销努力影响市场需求,单周期季节性产品销售环境下,分析了集中式供应链和供应商管理库存(VMI)供应链中的供应商供货量和零售商促销努力水平的决策问题。在无契约VMI供应链中引入滞销产品补贴的销量回扣契约,讨论了零售商参与合作的条件,结论表明该契约能够提高VMI供应链的绩效并改善其收益;而VMI供应链中的成员采用改进的销量回扣契约进行协调时,有可能实现集中式供应链的最优收益。最后,通过算例验证了引入滞销产品补贴的销量回扣契约能增加供应商供货量和零售商促销努力水平,大幅度地提升VMI供应链的总收益。     

供需不确定下基于MOI和VMI模式的供应链协同比较研究

为分析供应链运作机制对降低随机供应商产出和随机需求的影响,对比研究了两供应商-单制造商系统在MOI和VMI两种模式下的供应链协同模型。MOI模式下,制造商管理并持有库存,提出了供应风险共享的协同机制;VMI模式下,供应商管理并持有库存,提出了收益共享与额外惩罚的协同机制。分析了集中决策、MOI和VMI模式下的最优批量决策,证明了VMI模式下存在唯一的纳什均衡。研究还发现,VMI模式更容易协调供应链,有效降低供需不确定的影响。MOI模式下的供应链可实现帕累托改进,但不能实现协调;而当参数满足一定关系时,VMI模式下供应链的期望利润可达到集中决策。     

基于采购商投资的双源采购与供应商定价决策

随着供应链的全球化发展,供应链成员企业的合作越来越紧密。许多采购商通过直接对供应商投资提高供应的可靠性或降低采购成本。本文研究双供应商-单采购商的两级供应链中采购商投资、供应商定价以及采购商采购决策。在此供应链中,供应商和采购商之间存在先后决策的Stackelberg博弈,供应商之间存在同时决策的贝特兰德博弈。本文考虑异质供应商,即供应成本与稳定性存在差异,接受采购商投资后两者的改进效应也不同,建立了采购商投资、供应商定价、采购商采购三阶段博弈模型,基于凸优化理论和博弈分析方法对问题进行分析,并应用邻域搜索的自适应差分计划算法对问题进行求解。研究了供应链成员企业的最优均衡决策,分析供应成本、供应稳定性以及投资改进效应对最优均衡决策的影响。     

VMI环境下收入共享契约分析

随着竞争的加剧,供应链成员之间需要更紧密的合作关系.供应商管理库存(Vendor Managed Inventory,VMI)成为加强供应链合作的方式日益收到重视,但单独利用VMI不能有效的提高供应链的效率.本文首先分析了中心控制模式下和VMI模式下的系统性能参数,并分析了其性质.而后,利用收入共享契约来协调供应链成员之间的活动,得出了此种方式的系统性能参数,并证明了利用此契约能够提高供应链效率.最后,利用数值分析方法对结果进行了验证.     

确定需求下VMI-TPL分销供应链集成库存策略研究

针对VMI在实施中存在的问题,本文将TPL引入VMI,构建了确定需求下,由制造商、TPL和多零售商构成,考虑原材料、产成品的VMI-TPL供应链集成库存模型,并给出了最优生产策略和库存策略.在此基础上,文章进一步讨论了产需比等变量对供应链成本的影响,并比较分析了引入TPL前后VMI的最优策略.研究表明:引入TPL能有效降低供应链平均总成本,避免制造商高库存成本和高运营风险;制造商的产需比(p/d)对TPL引入后的效果影响很大,产需比越大,引入TPL的效果越好.     

易逝品VMI与TPL集成供应链研究

本文考虑易逝品VMI与TPL集成环境下的供应链,旨在分析引入TPL对VMI供应链性能的影响。文章分别讨论了供应商拥有库存决策权、TPL拥有库存决策权以及引入不允许缺货约束机制等三种情况下的供应链,分析结果表明,库存决策权的转移对供应链的绩效没有绝对的影响,而在加入不允许缺货的约束机制后,供应链库存水平、顾客满意度以及零售商和供应商的收益都会得到一定程度的改善,而TPL收益和供应链总收益的变化不确定。     

一个VMI环境下的协调合约及其抗突发事件性

本文通过在销售商主导的合约制定中引入惩罚函数,为不确定需求环境下供应商管理库存(VMI)提出一个新的合作合约,使供应商的存货量符合供应链利润最大的要求。该合约具有参数简单,管理费用低,并能将供应链的利润在供应商和销售商之间任意分配等优点。然后研究了该合约抗突发事件的能力,证明了如果突发事件导致供应商的生产费用变化,原合约仍然使供应链合作,合约具有一定的鲁棒性。若突发事件导致需求变化,则要对原来的合约作相应的修改。修改后的合约具有抗突发事件性。     

基于供应链绩效的网上逆向拍卖模型

市场经济下对于买方的卖方竞争越来越激烈,随之出现的网上逆向拍卖成为流行的交易方式,将网络逆向拍卖引入供应链交易环境中可以在很大程度上改变供应链上企业的行为和企业间关系,使合作和竞争的企业关系在供应链上共存,并降低信息、交易和参与成本,从而可以改善供应链的绩效.把VCG付费机制和网上逆向拍卖机制引入到供应链成本分析中,构建拍卖过程中考虑与不考虑运输成本影响时的供应链总成本模型,通过对多家企业的实际数据进行分析表明,在供应链交易环境中,如果拍卖人在拍卖过程中同时考虑生产成本和运输成本的影响,网上拍卖可以较大程度的降低供应链总成本,而且只会引起供应链上企业成本的小幅上涨,对整个供应链效益是有益的.     

基于交货期库存协调的供应链转移定价研究

在将缺货成本和延期惩罚成本纳入决策模型的前提下,对供应商—制造商两阶供应链在转移定价、安全库存,以及总成本之间的相互作用进行了探讨:首先探讨基于 Stackelberg 收益共享定价机制的最优决策;然后,以一体化供应链为参照系,探讨对供应链各成员的行为进行优化的两部制(two-part scheme)收益共享转移定价决策在实践中的运用;最后,探讨模型中部分变量变化对最优决策所产生的影响.通过分析发现,承诺的交货期、延期惩罚成本与缺货成本将会影响供应链的总成本和转移定价决策,进而影响供应商的最优库存决策,而制造商则可以通过适当的激励机制设计,激励供应商按照供应链整体最优的方式进行转移定价、安全库存及相关决策.     

库存成本变化的VMI供应链协调

提出了库存成本变化的经济订货批量(EOQ)模型，基于该模型研究了库存成本变化时供应商管理库存(VMI)系统的最优协议问题。在该系统中，订货商和供应商达成缺货成本共担协议：当缺货发生时，供应商需要向订货商支付缺货补偿。订货商和供应商分散决策，订货商通过设计协议来减少其成本，而供应商通过制定补货决策来缩小自身成本。通过与传统系统和整合系统的比较，得出了库存成本变化时VMI系统的最优补货决策和缺货成本共担协议。采用数值算例验证了分析结果。结果表明，当且仅当供应商预期成本等于整合系统的最小总成本与固定缺货罚金之和时，VMI系统与整合系统具有相同的补货决策和系统绩效，即能够实现供应链协调。     

Flexibility or Cost Saving? Sourcing Decisions with Two Suppliers

This article studies a decentralized supply chain in which there are two suppliers and a single buyer. One supplier offers the quantity flexibility (QF) contract to the buyer, while the other offers the cheaper price. Under the QF contract, the buyer does not assume full responsibility for the forecast, yet the supplier guarantees the availability of the forecasted quantity with additional buffer inventory. On the other hand, the price‐only contract places full inventory burden on the buyer, but with a cheaper price. We study this problem from the buyer's perspective and solve for the buyer's optimal procurement and forecasting decisions. We identify areas where flexibility and cheaper price have an advantage, one over the other. Our results indicate that the buyer significantly benefits from having multiple sources of supply. We also find that, from the system's standpoint, a multisupplier system may outperform a single‐supplier supply chain under certain conditions. Interestingly, we observe that providing too much flexibility may benefit the low‐price supplier rather than benefiting the QF supplier. We discuss the managerial implications and provide directions for future research opportunities.     

Supplier–Buyer Negotiation Games: Equilibrium Conditions and Supply Chain Efficiency

In a decentralized supply chain, supplier–buyer negotiations have a dynamic aspect that requires both players to consider the impact of their decisions on future decisions made by their counterpart. The interaction generally couples strongly the price decision of the supplier and the quantity decision of the buyer. We propose a basic model for a repeated supplier–buyer interaction, during several rounds. In each round, the supplier first quotes a price, and the buyer places an order at that price. We find conditions for existence and uniqueness of a well‐behaved subgame‐perfect equilibrium in the dynamic game. When costs are stationary and there are no holding costs, we identify some demand distributions for which these conditions are met, examine the efficiency of the equilibrium, and show that, as the number of rounds increases, the profits of the supply chain increase towards the supply chain optimum. In contrast, when costs vary over time or holding costs are present, the benefit from multi‐period interactions is reduced and after a finite number of time periods, supply chain profits stay constant even when the number of rounds increases.     

博弈结构对VMI模式下供应链性能的影响分析

通过建立VMI模式下供应链的多阶段博弈模型,研究分析了VMI中零售商和供应商的不同博弈结构对供应链性能的影响,结果表明,当零售商和供应商之间进行的是双方同时决策的Nash静态博弈时,供应链的性能是最低的,而在一方先决策的动态博弈结构下,供应链的性能会得到明显的改善。最后通过具体的算例分析证实了上述结论。     

不公平厌恶下VMI供应链的批发价格契约与协调

供应链契约是影响VMI供应链整体绩效的重要因素,这是近年来关注的重要研究课题。本文着重研究了由供应商与零售商组成的二级VMI供应链协调问题,在供应商存在不公平厌恶的假设下,依据Cui等提出的不公平厌恶模型刻画了供应商的不利与有利不公平厌恶,通过分析得到了分散VMI供应链情形下供应商的最优策略,同时分析了二级VMI供应链在批发价格契约下的协调情况。通过分析得到的主要结论是:在供应商存在不利不公平厌恶的情形下,供应商存在唯一的最优产品生产量,其不高于传统供应商的最优产品生产量且为不利不公平厌恶系数或零售商势力外生参数的严格减函数或减函数,批发价格契约无法使二级VMI供应链达到协调;在供应商存在有利不公平厌恶的情形下,供应商存在唯一的最优产品生产量,其不低于传统供应商的最优产品生产量且为有利不公平厌恶系数或零售商势力外生参数的严格增函数或增函数,批发价格契约在一定条件下可使二级VMI供应链达到协调。最后,通过数值实验分析验证了本文得出的结论。     

供应链应收账款融资的决策分析与价值研究

根据供应链应收账款融资交易模型,建立了包含供应商、下游厂商和金融机构的多阶段供应链决策模型,研究了包含和不包含融资情况下相关企业的决策问题,得到供应链中各参与方在各阶段的期望收益,并通过数值分析研究了供应链应收账款融资对供应链成员和整个供应链的价值.分析发现:没有其他融资的情况下,中小供应商有可能出现生产不连续的情况,而供应链应收账款融资能够使其进行连续生产,并在快速增长的市场中能在较短的周期内达到最优产量;应收账款融资也能使厂商得到连续供货,收益持续增长,供应商的初始现金越多,厂商的期望收益越高;当供应商的实力较弱时,金融机构能够得到较大融资总收益,当供应商的实力达到一定程度后,金融机构得到的总收益呈下降趋势.供应链应收账款融资对中小供应商、厂商和金融机构都具有很大的应用价值.     

The impact of inter-organizational information systems-enabled external integration on capabilities of buyer–supplier dyads

Increasingly, firms are adopting two major supply chain management initiatives: to undertake external integration with supply chain partners and to implement inter-organizational information systems (IOSs). However, academic researchers have not adequately investigated effects of these types of initiatives. Using empirical data from 154 buyer–supplier dyads, we examined the direct and indirect effects (through external integration) of IOS usage on capabilities of buyer– supplier dyads. We found that external integration plays a mediating role in the relationship between IOS usage and capabilities of buyer– supplier dyad. This is the first study to investigate the effects of IOS usage and external integration on capabilities of buyer–supplier dyad.     

Supply Disruptions,Heterogeneous Beliefs,and Production Efficiencies

Recent years have witnessed the pervasive supply disruptions and their impacts on supply chain performance. In this study, we investigate the optimal procurement design with supply disruptions and heterogeneous beliefs between the buyer and the supplier. We examine the impact of information asymmetry on the supplier's belief, the control right of the backup production, and the verifiability of supply disruption. The belief heterogeneity creates speculative gains and losses because the buyer and the supplier hold different estimates of the disruption probability. We demonstrate that the buyer's incentive to exploit this belief heterogeneity leads to real production inefficiencies in different scenarios. The production efficiency is not necessarily improved with more transparent information. Moreover, a very pessimistic supplier may have no incentive to invest in improving the reliability even if this is costless, and the supplier may produce more when the expected production cost becomes higher. When the buyer sees some value in using the supplier's estimate to update his own belief, we find that the main results hold unless the buyer completely abandons his belief.     

Improving supplier performance using a comprehensive scheme

Improving and coordinating buyer and supplier efforts to increase productivity and competitive advantage in a supply chain is an important issue. Numerous studies have proposed models, principles and criteria for supplier evaluation and selection. Hence, evaluating and improving supplier performance are important when building long-term supply chain competitiveness. This study presents a novel and comprehensive framework that illustrates the linkages between evaluating supplier performance and planning improvements. The proposed framework comprises four parts: building an evaluation model, evaluating supplier performance based on the buyer perspective, evaluating supplier performance based on the supplier perspective and scheduling improvement tasks. This study applies a hybrid genetic algorithm to help suppliers schedule improvement tasks based on the evaluation findings. Finally, evaluation data of a light-emitting diode (LED) manufacturer in Taiwan is used to interpret the procedure and verify model effectiveness.