Work place: School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R.China
E-mail: gxl@mail.ustc.edu.cn
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Biography
Xiaolong Guo was born in Weifang China on 25 February, 1986, is a Ph.D candidate of the School of Management at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC, Hefei, China) now, and got his bachelor’s degree in Management from Northeastern University (NEU, Shenyang, China) in 2008. His research interests are supply chain management and tourism management. He has published two papers in the past 3 years, one on the 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering and the other is on Journal of China Tourism Research. Mr. Guo is a peer reviewer of European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR).
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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