Endogenous information acquisition in supply chain management
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Endogenous information acquisition in supply chain management
zbMATH Open document ID: 1183.90016
author: Qi Fu
author: Kaijie Zhu
published in: European Journal of Operational Research
publication date: 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z
review text: The authors study the optimal acquisition of information in a supply chain model consisting of a supplier and a buyer, who faces random demand. The buyer can choose to purchase information on the demand before placing an order. In an integrated setting, where buyer and supplier are owned by the same firm and a central decision maker exists, it is shown that the expected profit is concave in the information acquisition level. In the decentralized setting governed by a wholesale price contract it is shown that the information acquisition level is no more than that in the integrated setting if and only if the wholesale price is greater or equal than unit selling price minus unit cost. Finally, supply chain coordination under other contracts (quantity discount, quantity flexibility, and buy back) is studied.
reviewed by: Matthias Ehrgott
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B50
zbMATH DE Number: 5633674
zbMATH Keywords: information acquisition
zbMATH Keywords: inventory
zbMATH Keywords: supply chain management
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.ejor.2009.03.019
OpenAlex ID: W1972663899
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DOI: 10.1016/J.EJOR.2009.03.019
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5633674