This paper studies the role of option contracts in a multi-period VMI supply chain consisting
of one supplier and one retailer, where an emergency production is allowed to be carried …

Option contracts have been increasingly employed by supply chain firms as a popular
strategy to hedge against the risk of unanticipated demand. This paper examines the impact …

This paper formulates two groups of multiperiod production and ordering models with call
and bidirectional option contracts for a two‐party supply chain consisting of one followed …

Purpose Due to rapid product obsolescence, there is a significant decline in the market
prices, which causes that the sale season is often divided into two periods. This paper aims …

This paper builds the multi-period optimization models that incorporate put option contract
and two supply chain structures to determine the production decision for a supplier and the …

Coordination improves the profit of all the members in a supply chain. In this paper, a novel
coordination mechanism is introduced in a retailer-manufacturer supply chain in which the …

This paper considers a dyadic supply chain formed by one retailer and one supplier, and
compares the performances for both companies and for the whole chain as a single unit …

This paper studies an option contract for coordinating a supply chain comprising one risk‐
neutral supplier and two risk‐averse retailers engaged in promotion competition in the …

Under a vendor managed inventory contract, the retailer offers a price she would pay the
manufacturer for each unit of the product. Based on the unit price that was offered, the …

The paper introduces an option contract to improve the performance of a vendor-managed
inventory (VMI) supply chain under yield uncertainty. We first assume that there is a …