The Contract Game of Inventory Management in Supply Chain
This paper, from the perspective of game theory, has analyzed the factors that can influence the cooperative relationship of both the upstream and downstream enterprises inventory management in the supply chain. It has also explored the significant role played by the contract upon the overall optimization of inventory management, and established the finite game model without contract, the infinite game model without contract, the finite game model with contract and the infinite game model with contract respectively between the manufacturers and distributors. The results show that contract does not only guarantee the consistent achievement of the solidified cooperation and spur the manufacturers and distributors to form a strategic cooperative partnership, but also is the pivotal nexus of the overall optimization of inventory management in supply chain. Thus, in the inventory management system of the supply chain, it is necessary to establish a certain contract to bind the behaviors of participant enterprises.
game contract supply chain
Wei Guo Harald Wiese Yifan Xu
School of Management Huazhong Uni. Of Science &Technology Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430074,China Department of Microeconomics University of Leipzig Leipzig, 04109, Germany School of Management Huazhong Uni. Of Sci. &Tech. Wuhan, 430074,China
国际会议
上海
英文
2007-09-21（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）