Sourcing and pricing strategies for two retailers in a decentralized supply chain system under supply disruption


M.A. Azarmehr, S. Rezapour and R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam


This paper presents the decentralized supply chain with two suppliers and two competing retailers. It also investigates the sourcing and pricing strategies of two retailers in a decentralized supply chain system under a supply disruption environment. These retailers face their individual stochastic demand markets; however, they compete with each other through a two-stage price and service operation. The interactive dynamics among retailers is characterized, including the existence and uniqueness of the Nash quilibrium in service and price games demonstrated.


DOI: j.msl.2011.10.004

Keywords: Decentralized supply chain Competition ,Sourcing and pricing strategies Supply disruption

How to cite this paper:

Azarmehr, M., Rezapour, S & Iran, R. (2012). Sourcing and pricing strategies for two retailers in a decentralized supply chain system under supply disruption.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 43-54.


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