Structure selection in dual-channel supply chains: The common or the exclusive shop?

Author

Cai Jingjing ; Wang Wenliang

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. & Manage. Sci., Henan Agric. Univ., Zhengzhou, China

fYear

2014

fDate

25-27 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper investigated the influence of suppliers´ profits who manufacture the alternative commodities and the consumer utility, in the situations that the suppliers choose the common or the excusive shop to sell their commodities. By comparing suppliers´ profits and consumer utility, the analysis suggested such a conclusion: in general, suppliers´ profits and consumer utility in the exclusive shop model will be higher than the common shop model; But under certain conditions, suppliers´ profits and consumer utility in the common shop model are better than exclusive shop model, and conditions depend on parameters like channel base demand, channel cost and channel substitutability.

Keywords

profitability; retailing; supply chains; channel base demand; channel cost; channel substitutability; common shop model; consumer utility; dual channel supply chains; exclusive shop model; supplier profits; Analytical models; Contracts; Educational institutions; Face; Pricing; Supply chains; Uncertainty; dual-channel; profits; structure selection; supply chain efficiency;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2014 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3133-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSSM.2014.6874027

Filename

6874027