Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the supply chain coordination with contracts.
Numerous supply chain models are discussed. In each model, the supply chain optimal …

Recent research in information economics has focused on signals as mechanisms to solve
problems that arise under asymmetric information. A firm or individual credibly …

The paper examines the opportunities in and possibilities arising from big data in retailing,
particularly along five major data dimensions—data pertaining to customers, products …

This paper studies how a manufacturer should engage with a platform retailer and a
traditional reseller. Our work is motivated by the emergence of increasingly powerful retail …

Under a revenue-sharing contract, a retailer pays a supplier a wholesale price for each unit
purchased, plus a percentage of the revenue the retailer generates. Such contracts have …

A channel rebate is a payment from a manufacturer to a retailer based on retailer sales to
end consumers. Two common forms of channel rebates are linear rebates, in which the …

Forecast sharing is studied in a supply chain with a manufacturer that faces stochastic
demand for a single product and a supplier that is the sole source for a critical component …

ABSTRACT A variety of mathematical forms have been developed to characterize demand
functions which depend on a firm's operational and marketing activities. Such demand …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the information pertaining to the downstream
part of the supply chain and then reviews the upstream information. The chapter discusses …

It has been conjectured that the peer-based recommendations associated with electronic
commerce lead to a redistribution of demand from popular products or" blockbusters" to less …