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A Supply Chain Equilibrium Model with General Price-Dependent Demand
Operations Research Perspectives
  • Younes Hamdouch, Zayed University
  • Kilani Ghoudi, United Arab Emirates University
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0002-4999-1373

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Abstract

The concept of supply chain equilibrium has been widely employed to solve real-life cases. Under this concept, decisions makers move simultaneously and compete in a noncooperative manner to achieve a supply chain network equilibrium. This paper proposes a supply chain network equilibrium model consisting of multiple raw material suppliers, manufacturers and retailers. Unlike previous studies, we assume that the demand for the product at each retail outlet is modeled as general stochastic functions of price that encompass additive-multiplicative demand models used in previous studies. Under general price-dependent demand functions, we derive the optimality conditions of suppliers, manufacturers and retailers, and establish that the governing equilibrium conditions can be formulated as a finite-dimensional variational inequality problem. The existence and uniqueness of the solution to the variational inequality are examined. A sensitivity analysis and a series of numerical tests are conducted to illustrate the analytical effects of demand distribution, model parameters, demand level and variability on quantity shipments, prices, and expected profits. Managerial insights are reported to show the impact of different types of demand functions and model parameters on the equilibrium solutions.

Publisher
Elsevier BV
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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
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Yes
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Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Younes Hamdouch and Kilani Ghoudi. "A Supply Chain Equilibrium Model with General Price-Dependent Demand" Operations Research Perspectives Vol. 7 (2020) p. 100165 ISSN: <p><a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2214-7160" target="_blank">2214-7160</a></p>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/younes-hamdouch/2/