How to implement return policies in a two-echelon supply chain?
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: How to implement return policies in a two-echelon supply chain?
zbMATH Open document ID: 1257.90032
DOI: 10.1155/2012/453193
author: Wei Hu
author: Jianbin Li
published in: Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
publication date: 2013-02-21T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: We integrate a retailer's return policy and a supplier's buyback policy within a modeling framework. In this setting, consumers decide whether to buy and then whether to return the product, the retailer sets the retail price, quantity, and refund price, and the supplier chooses the wholesale price and buyback price. Both the demand uncertainty and consumers' valuation uncertainty are considered; consumers realize their valuations only after purchase. We discuss four scenarios for each party in the supply chain that may offer or not offer return policy. We characterize each party's optimal decisions for all scenarios and we show that the supplier's best choice is to provide buyback policy and the retailer's optimal response is to set refund price to be the same as supplier's buyback price.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B30
zbMATH DE Number: 6137734
Wikidata QID: Q58700566
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/453193
OpenAlex ID: W2157911773
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6137734