Price and Service Competition of Dual-Channel Supply Chain with Consumer Returns by Lili Ren, Yong He, Houfei Song

“…Products returned by consumers are common in the retail industry and result in additional costs to both the manufacturer and the retailer. …”
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Optimal Transfer-Ordering Strategy for a Deteriorating Inventory in Declining Market by Nita H. Shah, Kunal T. Shukla

“…The objective is to maximize the retailer's total profit per unit time. The algorithms are derived to find the optimal strategy by retailer. …”
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Research on Demand Forecasting Information Sharing Strategy of Closed-Loop Supply Chain considering Advertising Effect by Liying Li, Xinyu Hou, Lixia Niu

“…The results show that in terms of advertising, manufacturers prefer retailers to undertake, and retailers’ willingness is related to the mode of information sharing. …”
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Stackelberg Game Perspective on Pricing Decision of a Dual-Channel Supply Chain with Live Broadcast Sales by Rong Zhang, Xiaoying Zhang, Bin Liu

“…Meanwhile, it also evaluates the pricing strategy of online retailers after introducing KOL (Key Opinion Leader) live broadcasts. …”
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Two-Stage Pricing Decision for Low-Carbon Products Based on Consumer Strategic Behaviour by Cheng Che, Zhihong Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhang, Yi Chen

“…The development of information technology has changed the pricing strategy of retailers, and consumers have also made strategic consumption behaviours accordingly. …”
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Drivers of augmented reality shopping adoption for high-involvement products in South Africa by Kate M. Ngobeni, Khathutshelo M. Makhitha

“…Conclusion: Gaining a greater understanding of consumers’ perception of online AR in the retail industry is critical for business success to create an enhanced and immersive retail experience. …”
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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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Optimal Decision and Coordination of Fresh E-Commerce Supply Chain Considering Double Loss by Shizhen Bai, Yang Lv, Zejun Liu

“…Motivated by a large amount of quality loss and quantity loss of fresh products during transportation, this paper examines the effect of the double loss on decisions and profits by establishing models for a fresh e-commerce supply chain consisting of one online retailer and one third-party logistics provider. The online retailer sells fresh products and provides compensation for quantity loss. …”
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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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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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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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