COORDINATION MECHANISM WITH QUANTITY DISCOUNT CONTRACT FOR CLOUD SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN
We mainly design a quantity discount contract to coordinate the two-stage cloud service supply chain,which consists of one application service provider (ASP) and one application infrastructure provider (AIP).The AIP supplies the computing capacity to the ASP.The ASP sells the value-added application services to the market.The market is characterized by a price-sensitive random demand.We discuss three kinds of coordination mechanism,namely,centralized mechanism,wholesale price contract and quantity discount contract.We find that although the wholesale price contract can coordinate the supply chain,the AIP cant get a large portion of supply chain profit.We design a quantity discount contract,which can perfectly coordinate the cloud service supply chain and arbitrarily allocate the coordination profit.Otherwise,the quantity discount contract does not distort the ASPs pricing decision,if coordinating the ASPs ordered quantity it can also coordinate the ASPs pricing.Furthermore,through numerical analysis,we find that the quantity discount contract improves the performance of supply chain system,which heightens the AIPs status.The AIP turns into the active initiator of the quantity discount contract.
Cloud computing Cloud services Supply chain Quantity discount contract
Lingyun Wei Shenghui Zhai
Department of Logistics Engineering,School of Automation Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing 100876,China
国际会议
杭州
英文
557-561
2012-10-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）