Strategic Sourcing in the Presence of Uncertain Supply and Retail Competition

• Main Authors: CHEN, Jianqing, GUO, Zhiling
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: dual sourcing; supply uncertainty; uniform allocation; price competition; supply chain; Computer Sciences; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1853; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2852/viewcontent/Strategic_Sourcing_av.pdf; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2852/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/Strategic_Sourcing_AppendixS1.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper develops an analytical model to evaluate competing retail firms’ sourcing strategies in the presence of supply uncertainty. We consider a common supplier that sells its uncertain supply to two downstream retail firms engaging in price competition in a horizontally differentiated product m...