INFORMATION FORECAST IN A SUPPLY CHAIN WITH ELECTRONIC MARKET

摘要：

This paper considers a supply chain consists with a risk-neutral supplier and a risk-averse manufacturer in the presence of electronic market. We study how superior demand-forecast information for the manufacturer affects the suppliers profit and strategy.Our study shows that if the profit margin is large for the manufacturer,the supplier will set a higher the wholesale price to a better-forecast manufacturer.We also find that if the correlation coefficient is zero,the forecast accuracy does not affect the supplier s profit.At last,we numerically study how the forecast accuracy affects the suppliers profit.

关键词： Supply chain management Electronic market Asymmetric information Forecasting.

作者: Pingping Hu Wei Xing Ling Jiao

作者单位: School of Management,Qufu Normal University,Qufu,China Department of Elementary Education of Computer Science,Ocean University of China,Qingdao,P.R.China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information System(第13届企业信息系统国际会议 ICEIS 2011)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 561-564

在线出版日期: 2011-06-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）