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Zbl 1168.90508
Hsieh, Chung-Chi; Wu, Cheng-Han
Capacity allocation, ordering, and pricing decisions in a supply chain with demand and supply uncertainties. (English)
[J] Eur. J. Oper. Res. 184, No. 2, 667-684 (2008). ISSN 0377-2217

Summary: This paper studies coordinated decisions in a decentralized supply chain that consists of one Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), one manufacturer, and one distributor, and possesses uncertainties at both demand and supply sides. These uncertainties emerge, respectively, from random demand the distributor faces and randomness of capacity with which the OEM processes the manufacturer's outsourced quantity. Sharing supply and demand uncertainty information along the supply chain enables us to develop three models with different coordination efforts-the OEM and manufacturer coordination, the manufacturer and distributor coordination, and the OEM, manufacturer, and distributor coordination-and quantify the coordinated decisions in these three models. Our analysis of these coordination models suggests that coordinating with the OEM improves the manufacturer's probability of meeting downstream demand and his expected profit, yet coordinating with the manufacturer is not necessarily beneficial to the OEM when downstream coordination is lacking.

MSC 2000:: *90B50 Multiple-criteria decision making

Keywords: Capacity uncertainty; coordination; demand uncertainty; outsourcing; supply chain management

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