Coordinating a decentralized supply chain with customer returns and price-dependent stochastic demand using a buyback policy

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 293-300

  Chen, Jing ^a   Bell, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buyback policies; Coordination mechanism; Inventory policies; Pricing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

BUYBACK POLICIES; COORDINATION MECHANISM; DECENTRALIZED SUPPLY CHAINS; INVENTORY POLICIES; ORDER QUANTITY; PRICING; RETAIL PRICE; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION; WIN-WIN;

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INVENTORY CONTROL; MANUFACTURE; PROFITABILITY; SALES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WAGES;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 79953320589     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.01.036     Document Type: Article

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