Work place: School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R.China
E-mail: tuyijian@mail.ustc.edu.cn
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Biography
Yijian Tu was born in Zhangzhou City in china on 30 December, 1985, is Master candidate in management science and engineering at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, Hefei, China) now, and got his bachelor’s degree of business administration at Northern China Electronic Power University in 2008. His current research interests are dual channel management and online channel management.
By Li Feng Tu Yijian Guo Xiaolong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2011.03.07, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2011
In Drop-shipping supply chain, retailers get the customer orders and manufacturers carry out the orders. Are there any free riders while obtaining the customer order? If any, who could be the free riders? By comparing the decentralized and centralized decision making, we find that both manufacturers and retailers are possible to behave as free riders. Also, we study the contract designs to coordinate manufacturers and retailers in Drop-shipping supply chain, and we find that a combination of quantity discount and delivery reliability compensation mechanism as to guarantee manufacturers a safe delivery can achieve the bi-direction excitation, and finally the coordination of the supply chain.
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