Contract Analysis and Design for Supply Chains with Stochastic Demand

• Main Authors: Zhao, Yingxue (Author), Meng, Xiaoge (Author), Wang, Shouyang (Author), Cheng, T. C. Edwin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 234
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Industrial engineering.; Production engineering.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Operations Management.; Industrial and Production Engineering.

This book is devoted to analysis and design of supply chain contracts with stochastic demand.  Given the extensive utilization of contracts in supply chains, the issues concerning contract analysis and design are extremely important for supply chain management (SCM), and substantial research has bee...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Buyback Contracts with Price-dependent Demands: Effects of Demand Uncertainty
• Mean-Risk Analysis of Wholesale Price Contracts with Stochastic Price-dependent Demand
• Franchise Fee Contracts in Product Service System with Demand Information Asymmetry
• Coordination of Supply Chains with Bidirectional Option Contracts
• A Value-based Approach to Option Pricing: The Case of Supply Chain Options
• Selection of Supply Chain Contracts: The Case of Option Contracts
• Conclusions and Future Research Directions.