Overall Profit Of Supply Chain Research Articles

Collaborative Pricing of Green Supply Chain of Prefabricated Construction

In the process of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, prefabricated buildings have developed rapidly, and the concept of green and low carbon has been introduced into the field of prefabricated buildings. This paper establishes an information sharing platform based on BIM (Building Information Modeling), RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification), and GIS (Geographic Information System) technologies from the green supply chain of prefabricated buildings. On the basis of information sharing, the Stackelberg two-stage game is used to analyze and compare the overall profit of the supply chain under the centralized pricing decision and the decentralized pricing decision. Through numerical simulation, this paper analyzes the relationship between pricing and the overall profit of the supply chain, compares the difference of the overall profit of supply chain under two different pricing strategies, centralized pricing and decentralized pricing, and analyzes the influence of information sharing degree on the overall profit of the supply chain. The results show that the overall profit of the supply chain under centralized pricing decisions is significantly higher than that under decentralized pricing decisions. The higher the degree of information sharing, the greater the overall profit of the supply chain.

Research on the Influence of Green Degree on the Decision of Extended Warranty Service Supply Chain

The green supply chain not only relies on the manufacturer to provide green products, but also requires the supply chain members to provide green services. As a kind of green services, the extended warranty service can further expand the life cycle of products and reduce the frequency of products being eliminated due to damage. According to the existing literature research results, this paper finds that the influence of green degree on the enterprise's product green management strategy is gradually transferred to the product and service supply chain, and finally forms the green supply chain operation mode combining green production and green service. This paper analyzes the influence of product greenness and extended warranty service greenness on supply chain pricing strategy, and draws the following conclusions: Excessive green input will lead to the increase of extended warranty service price, resulting in the loss of consumers who buy extended warranty service. While reducing the green degree is good for enterprises to reduce costs, but low green will dampen the enthusiasm of consumers to buy products and the extended warranty service, and this will have a negative impact on the reputation of the company and the product. Therefore, this paper puts forward the suggestion that enterprises should consider the comprehensive effect of green degree and extended warranty service price, and set a reasonable green degree to improve the overall profit of supply chain.

政府补贴下考虑利他偏好的供应链扶贫效果

This paper studies the influence of government poverty alleviation policy and altruistic preference on supply chain decision-making in a supply chain consisting of one supplier and two manufacturers. The two manufacturers produce poverty alleviation products and non-poverty alleviation products (general products) respectively, which are competing in the same market, and the manufacturer who produces poverty alleviation products chooses a level of investment and receives government subsidies. The dynamic game model is established to analyze the influence of government subsidy rate, supplier altruistic preference and market share of poverty alleviation products on supply chain decision-making. Through numerical analysis, the effectiveness of supply chain in poverty alleviation is analyzed from the perspective of absolute poverty and relative poverty. The results show that enhancing these three factors (government subsidy rate, supplier altruistic preference and market share of poverty alleviation products) can effectively improve the level of poverty alleviation investment, the output of poverty alleviation products, the market price and the profit of poverty alleviation product manufacturers, however the profit of general product manufacturers is decreased. The market share of poverty alleviation products and the intensity of competition between these two products are key factors which are influencing the effect of poverty alleviation. Increasing the market share of government subsidies or poverty-relief products can effectively increase the profit of suppliers and the overall profit of supply chain, which provides a foundation for supply chain members to realize Pareto improvement. The conclusion provides theoretical reference for the stabilization and marketization of poverty-relief products.

The Pricing Strategy of the Agricultural Product Supply Chain with Farmer Cooperatives as the Core Enterprise

The pricing strategy of agricultural products not only affects the product demand and purchasing behavior of consumers, but also the income distribution of node enterprises and the overall profit of the agricultural supply chain. This paper studies the pricing strategy of the agricultural product supply chain with farmer cooperatives as the core enterprise. Considering the heterogeneous demand of consumers, this paper introduces the degree of agricultural product characteristics and establishes a dynamic pricing model for agricultural products under decentralized decision-making and centralized decision-making and designs a revenue sharing coordination contract. The results indicate that the overall profit of the supply chain obtained by pricing agricultural products through a decentralized decision-making model is lower than that created under centralized decision-making. Improving the degree of agricultural product’s characteristics and adopting the revenue sharing contract is conducive to the Pareto improvement of supply members. The relevant recommendations provide a reference for the product pricing strategy of this type of agricultural product supply chain.

Effects of Carbon Policy on Carbon Emission Reduction in Supply Chain under Uncertain Demand

Although there are many articles on carbon emission reduction of sustainable supply chain, most of them study the carbon emission reduction efficiency of supply chain in the case of single carbon policy or demand determination. Based on previous studies, this paper considered a supply chain consisting of a single manufacturer and a single retailer in an uncertain demand market. The effects of demand randomness and different carbon policies on carbon emission reduction level and optimal decision in supply chain were studied by constructing mean-variance utility function and Stackelberg game. Due to the difficulty of data acquisition, this paper verified the equalization results by numerical simulation. The results show that: (1) cap-and-trade policy, government subsidy policy and carbon tax policy can promote the carbon emission reduction investment of supply chain, while carbon tax policy will lead to the decline of the overall profit of supply chain; (2) For the manufacturer and the retailer, adopting a strategy with a low degree of risk avoidance will increase its own profits; (3) For the supply chain as a whole, it is more advantageous for manufacturers to adopt higher risk avoidance strategies, while retailers to adopt lower risk avoidance strategies. In addition, in the conclusion, this paper puts forward management implications related to stakeholders, thus providing help for the development of sustainable supply chain.

Research of Dual-channel Supply Chain Decision with Consideration of Low-carbon and Fairness Concerns

With in-depth implementation of policies on energy conservation and emission reduction and rising of low-carbon production practice in enterprises, low-carbon supply chain has gradually become a research issue which causes extensive attentions from scholars. However, most existing researches focus on supply chain decision and coordination under the background of single channel or mere consideration of fairness concerns of retailers. Therefore, the fairness concerns of manufacturers were taken into account in the double-channel low-carbon supply chain. A double-channel low-carbon supply chain model was constructed to research the influence of manufacturers’ fairness concerns to the optimal decision-making of all parties in the supply chain and to the overall performance of supply chain. The research results suggested that: with improvement of manufacturers’ fairness concern coefficient, the decision-making of supply chain members demonstrated different changing strength; the manufacturers’ fairness concern caused harm to overall profit of supply chain.

A Grey-Fuzzy Multiobjective Model for Supplier Selection and Production-Distribution Planning Considering Consumer Safety

Most of the recent product recall incidents indicate that effective management of suppliers and production-distribution planning may play a vital role in increasing product safety. This study explores the opportunities to increase the product safety by analyzing the performance of suppliers and production-distribution system. More precisely, this research analyzes the impact of suppliers’ performance on overall profit of supply chain and impact of increasing consumer safety on total profit of supply chain. The novelty of this study is the development of integrated supplier selection and production-distribution model considering consumer risk and product safety. The proposed model is a grey multiobjective model which considers imprecise information as grey parameters. Furthermore, a novel grey-weighted ε-constrained (GWECON) method is developed to solve the proposed multiobjective model.

The More Supply Chain Control Power, the Better? A Comparison among Four Kinds of Cooperation Models

This paper introduces the parameter of supply chain control power into existing supply chain coordination models and explores the impacts of control power on the profits of manufacturer, retailer, and the overall supply chain under four modes of decision-making, including the decentralized decision-making dominated by manufacturer, the decentralized decision-making dominated by retailer, centralized decision-making, and Nash negotiation decision-making. Some significant conclusions are obtained. Firstly, supply chain control power does have great impact on the supply chain profits. The profit of the whole supply chain with centralized decision-making is higher than those of the other three modes, while the overall profit of supply chain with decentralized decision-making is superior to the profit when retailer and manufacturer dominate the supply chain together. Secondly, with decentralized decision-making, for manufacturer and retailer, it is beneficial to gain the control powers of the supply chain; however, control power has an optimal value, not the bigger, the better. Thirdly, under certain circumstances, order quantity will increase and the wholesale price will decrease when control power is transferred from manufacturer to retailer. In this case, the total profit of supply chain dominated by retailer will be greater than that dominated by manufacturer.