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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Decision Sciences Volume 2012, Article ID 359082, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2012/359082 Research Article Economic Design of Acceptance Sampling Plans in a Two-Stage Supply Chain Lie-Fern Hsu1 and Jia-Tzer Hsu2 1 Department of Management, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, The City University of New York, One Bernard Baruch Way, P.O. Box B9-240, New York, NY 10010, USA 2 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hungkuang University, Shalu, Taichung 43302, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Lie-Fern Hsu, lie-fern.hsu@ Received 2 August 2011; Revised 13 January 2012; Accepted 19 January 2012 Academic Editor: Henry Schellhorn Copyright q 2012 L.-F. Hsu and J.-T. Hsu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Supply Chain Management, which is concerned with material and information flows between facilities and the final customers, has been considered the most popular operations strategy for improving organizational competitiveness nowadays. With the advanced development of computer technology, it is getting easier to derive an acceptance sampling plan satisfying both the producer’s and consumer’s quality and risk requirements. However, all the available QC tables and computer software determine the sampling plan on a noneconomic basis. In this paper, we design an economic model to determine the optimal sampling plan in a two-stage supply chain that minimizes the producer’s and the consumer’s total quality cost while satisfying both