供给延迟下易逝品的订货策略分析-analysis on ordering strategy of perishable goods with delayed supply.docxVIP

PAGE PAGE VIABSTRACTABSTRACTWith the development of economic and the progress of science and technology, the supply-demand relationship has transformed from a sellers to a buyers market, customers’ demand have become more individual and diverse, product life cycles have been shortened. More and more commodities have been with perishable characteristic. Regarding to the highly uncertainty demand in the supply chain of perishable goods, many papers have suggested that contracts can reduce the influence of uncertainty demand. One of the most common contracts is buy-back contract. However, supply uncertainty has become to a major topic in recent years. Machine breakdown, natural disasters and social problems, which have been result suppliers failed to arrange production or transportation as planned. Especially, with economic globalization, more and more corporations purchase raw material or organize production in the global range, which increase the length of transform distance and lead time. The supply become more uncertainty. Delay is one kind of common supply uncertainty. Considering supply delay, will the buy-back contract still coordinate the supply chain?One contribution of our paper is to study the retailer’s ordering policies under the buy-back contract, considering the demand distribution influenced by delay and the unreliable supplier pay some compensation for delay. Another contribution is to investigate the optimal ordering policy in a dual-supplier system with minimum lot size under delay.The main conclusions are as follows.In the first topic, we consider the retailer’s ordering policies under two kinds of compensation. The results indicate the following effects of delay: when the unreliable supplier pays unit fine, the retailer’s optimal ordering quantity and the expected profits are not monotonic in the probability of delay. When the unreliable supplier shares the retailer’s loss, the optimal ordering quantity and the retailer’s expected profit are decr