Research on optimal pricing decisions of the service supply chain oriented to strategic consumers

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>With service elements in the supply chain becoming more and more important, relevant companies and their partners have gradually introduced the service supply chain. At the same time, the continuous improvement of consumption level has significantly improved consumers' consumption awareness, thus becoming the primary choice for consumers to consume strategically based on past purchase experience. To contribute to the service supply chain studies, this paper uses game theory to establish dynamic pricing decision models of a service supply chain by taking consumers' strategic consumption awareness into account. This paper solves the equilibrium pricing strategies of the manufacturer and the service integrator under the centralized and decentralization scenarios, and reveals the effect of consumers' capability trust strength, service cost, product value, product cost on the consumer's strategic behavior, and the equilibrium strategies of the manufacturer and service integrator. This paper finds that improving consumer's capability trust coefficient and product value can restrain consumer's strategic behavior either under the centralized scenario or decentralized scenario. However, the impact degree under the decentralized scenario is less than that under the centralized scenario. Second, increasing the product value cannot positively affect consumer's strategic behavior when the product value is higher than a particular value whether under the centralized scenario or decentralized scenario. With the increase of consumer's capability trust strength, the intensity of consumer's strategic behavior will decrease, which will cause more consumers to purchase products in the first stage, and will finally cause a significant impact on the pricing strategies of the manufacturer and the service integrator.</p>