Supply Chain Contracting in Environments with Volatile Input Prices and Frictions

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panos Kouvelis ◽  
Danko Turcic ◽  
Wenhui Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Contracting ◽  
Input Prices

scholarly journals Farmers’ Bargaining Power and Input Prices: What Can We Learn from Self-Reported Assessments?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Malak-Rawlikowska ◽  
Dominika Milczarek-Andrzejewska ◽  
Jan Fałkowski
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Direct Information ◽  
Input Prices

One of the key challenges in improving our understanding of farmers’ relations with input suppliers is that we do not have direct information about farmers’ bargaining power vis-à-vis their input providers. To overcome this problem, this study used farmers’ self-reported assessments of their position in the supply chain. Using unique micro-survey data from the dairy sector in Poland, we constructed a proxy of farmers’ bargaining power and showed that it helps to explain discounts at which farmers buy feed from input suppliers, in addition to what is explained by the standard variables.

Supply Chain Contracting with Linear Utility Function

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ningning Wang ◽  
Jibao Gu ◽  
Qinglong Gou ◽  
Jinfeng Yue
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Utility Function ◽  
Wholesale Price ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Newsvendor Model ◽  
Supply Chain Contracting ◽  
Linear Utility ◽  
Linear Utility Function ◽  
Linear Setting

The supply chain contracting has traditionally been based on the profit maximization assumption. Recent research has shown that some behavior factors may influence the decision making of supply chain members. The authors utilize a linear utility function to depict such behavior factors and incorporate these into the newsvendor model. The linear utility function provides sufficient flexibility to better capture people's various behavior factors. By supposing the agents are concerned with behavior factors, the authors first investigate how the factors affect the supply chain under wholesale price contract, and find that they do not influence coordination condition, but can adjust the distribution of profits. Then they extend their study to other four common contracts with a similar method and systematically demonstrate that the behavior of agents in such a linear setting has no effect on the conditions of coordinating supply chain.

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