When to commit in a serial supply chain with forecast updating

Coordinating a two-supplier and one-reta

Coordinating a two-supplier and one-retailer supply chain with forecast updating

✍ Danqin Yang; Tsan-Ming Choi; Tiaojun Xiao; T.C.E. Cheng 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 506 KB

We consider the component-purchasing problem for a supply chain consisting of one retailer and two complementary suppliers with different lead-times. The retailer purchases a specific component from each supplier for assembling into a fashionable product. After ordering from the long-lead-time suppl