Distributed Price-based Coordination Mechanisms for Supply Chain Systems

This paper analyzes the problems of channel coordination in multistage supply chain systems, which is dynamically constructed based on customer demand. Firstly, the abstract agent model and the supply chain systems based on multiagent systems are proposed. Secondly, we analyze the optimal product price and optimal production/order quantity of the centralized supply chain systems, and on the basis of this, we investigate the supply chain models under wholesale price contracts and revenue-sharing contracts, and then analyze the performance of the systems with different node numbers and operation cost. And finally, through the computational examples, we analyze the performance of the system under different contracts, as well as the cost structure affecting the performance of the systems