Strategic inventories in competitive supply chains under bargaining

• Main Authors: Chen, Lucy Gongtao, Gu, Weijia, Tang, Qinshen
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Business::Operations management::Inventory control; Business::Operations management::Supply chain management; Strategic Inventory; Bargaining; Horizontal Competition; Supply Chain Efficiency
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169401
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Problem definition: Strategic inventory refers to the inventory held by firms purely out of strategic considerations other than operational reasons (e.g., economies of scale). In this paper, we investigate the roles of strategic inventory in a system with two parallel supply chains under both full b...