Pricing and Lead Time Decisions in a Duopoly Common Retailer Channel

• Main Author: NIU, Xiuming
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: pricing; lead time; duopoly common retailer channel; stackelberg game; vertical nash game; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/67; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This thesis studies a dual-level decentralized supply chain consisting of two suppliers and two retailers facing a price- and lead-time-sensitive demand. We model the suppliers’ operations as M/M/1 queues and demand as a linear function of the retail prices and promised delivery lead-times offered t...