Stability and Endogenous Formation of Inventory Transshipment Networks

• Main Authors: FANG, Xin, CHO, Soo-Haeng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: games/group decisions; cooperative; networks; inventory; Business; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4352; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5351/viewcontent/XinFang_InventoryTransshipmentCounterfeit.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper studies a cooperative game of inventory transshipment among multiple firms. In this game, firms first make their inventory decisions independently and then decide collectively how to transship excess inventories to satisfy unmet demands. In modeling transshipment, we use networks of firms...