Title
Optimal Pricing of competing retailers under uncertain demand-a two layer supply chain model
Abstract
The paper studies a two-echelon supply chain comprising of one manufacturer and two competing retailers with sales price dependent demand and random arrival of the customers. The manufacturer acts as the supplier who specifies wholesale price for the retailers and the retailers compete with each other announcing different sales prices. We analyse a single-period newsvendor type model to determine the optimal order quantity, considering the competing retailers’ strategies.The unsold items at the retailers are buyback to the manufacturer at less price than the sales prices.On the other hand, the retailers face shortages as the demand is uncertain in nature. The profit functions of manufacturer and two retailers are analyzed and compared following Stakelberg, Bertrand, Cournot–Bertrand and integrated approaches. Moreover, distribution-free model is analyzed for integrated profit of the chain. A numerical example is given to illustrate the theoretical results developed in each case. Computational results show that it is always beneficial in integrated system for the members of the chain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s10479-015-1996-0
Annals OR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pricing, Newsvendor, Uncertain demand, Supply chain
Newsvendor model,Supply chain model,Economic order quantity,Microeconomics,Supply chain,Economic shortage,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
260
1-2
1572-9338
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.51
20
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
arpita roy1144.39
Shib Sankar Sana250937.62
Kripasindhu Chaudhuri318713.22