A note on supply chain coordination for joint determination of order quantity and reorder point using a credit option

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• 作者：Barry R. Cobb ; Alan W. Johnson
• 关键词：Supply chain management ; Continuous review ; Coordination ; Credit option ; Rebate ; Uncertainty
• 刊名：European Journal of Operational Research
• 出版年：16 March, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：233
• 期：3
• 页码：790-794
• 全文大小：321 K

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Credit options and side payments are two methods suggested for achieving coordination in a two-echelon supply chain. We examine the credit option coordination mechanism introduced by Chaharsooghi and Heydari [Chaharsooghi, S., & Heydari, J. (2010). Supply chain coordination for the joint determination of order quantity and reorder point using credit option. European Journal of Operational Research, 204(1), 86-95]. This method assumes that the supplier鈥檚 opportunity costs are equal to the reduction in the buyer鈥檚 financial holding costs during the credit period. In this note, we show that Chaharsooghi and Heydari鈥檚 method is not applicable when buyer and supplier opportunity costs are not equal. We introduce an alternate per order rebate method that reduces supply chain costs to centralized management levels.