Lateral transshipments within an inventory system are stock movements between locations
of the same echelon. These transshipments can be conducted periodically at predetermined …

This paper surveys some applications of cooperative game theory to supply chain
management. Special emphasis is placed on two important aspects of cooperative games …

In modern transportation systems, the potential for further decreasing the costs of fulfilling
customer requests is severely limited while market competition is constantly reducing …

The paper presents a model for the collaboration among independent freight forwarding
entities. In the modern highly competitive transportation branch freight forwarders reduce …

Under group buying, quantity discounts are offered based on the buyers' aggregated
purchasing quantity, instead of individual quantities. As the price decreases with the total …

Supply chain management is related to the coordination of materials, products and
information flows among suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers and customers …

Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is an inventory management strategy to let a vendor
manage his retailers' inventories, which makes the vendor have the opportunity to obtain …

We studied a decentralised three-layer supply chain including a supplier, a producer and
some retailers. All the retailers order their demands to the producer and the producer order …

We study profit allocation rules for joint replenishment among retailers under a carbon cap-
and-trade policy. In particular, we consider retailers' altruistic behavior when designing the …

This paper concerns coordination of enterprise decisions such as suppliers and components
selection, pricing and inventory in a multi-level supply chain composed of multiple suppliers …