Economic and social collaborative decision-making on visit interval and service level in a two-echelon pharmaceutical supply chain

Nematollahi, Mohammadreza; Hosseini‐Motlagh, Seyyed‐Mahdi; Heydari, Jafar

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.10.062

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“…There are a number of contracts to coordinate various decisions in SCs. Revenue sharing, delay in payments, collaborative models, cost‐sharing, two‐part tariff, compensation‐based wholesale price, and buy‐back are some examples of coordination contracts (Partha Sarathi et al., ; Bai et al., ; Ebrahimi et al., ; Nematollahi et al., , ; Johari et al., ; Johari and Hosseini‐Motlagh, ; Lambertini, ; Nouri et al., ; Raj et al., ). Although coordination models have been extensively applied in forward SCs, the coordination in the reverse flow of the chain has not yet been widely applied (Hu et al., ).…”

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Proposing channel coordination and horizontal cooperation in two competitive three‐echelon reverse supply chains

Rahmani

Haeri

Hosseini‐Motlagh

2019

Int Trans Operational Res

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Considering and analyzing various kinds of cooperation among supply chain members is an option for better managing each channel. It is noteworthy that in many real‐world cases, each of vertical and horizontal cooperation has an important role in the success of supply chains. Nevertheless, only vertical cooperation in most previous research is considered. This paper addresses both vertical and horizontal cooperation in two competitive reverse supply chains, each of which includes one collector, one remanufacturer, and one retailer. Our primary concern is to analyze quality improvement competition between the remanufacturers. Moreover, retail price competition between the retailers and the quality competition are simultaneously considered in the extended model. In this research, the investigated system has been analyzed under different structures including decentralized, centralized, horizontal cooperation, and coordinated decision‐making models. The results show that when the remanufacturers cooperate horizontally, the profit of each collector and that of the retailer will decrease compared with those in the decentralized structure. To overcome this problem, a new coordination contract named multiple‐link two‐part tariff is proposed to simultaneously coordinate the members of each chain. The proposed contract effectively convinces the remanufacturers to participate in the coordination model instead of the horizontal cooperation. Moreover, it provides a win–win–win condition for all chain members and improves the quality level of the remanufactured products. The results indicate the proper performance of the proposed contract in improving the benefits of the competing chains, especially when there exists no intense competition between the remanufacturers (i.e., when the market sensitivity to the quality of the remanufactured products is low and consequently less effort is needed to increase the quality of the remanufactured products). Moreover, the proposed contract not only is able to simultaneously increase both remanufactured products demand and of end‐of‐life products supply but also involves both economic and environmental benefits.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposing channel coordination and horizontal cooperation in two competitive three‐echelon reverse supply chains

Rahmani

Haeri

Hosseini‐Motlagh

2019

Int Trans Operational Res

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“…Appendix G shows in details all such barriers and associated studies. In summary, inventory/production planning appears as the main constraint of the forward PSC that impacts RL (Nematollahi et al, 2017a;2017b;Narayana et al, 2019, and other authors listed in Appendix G, column 4). The second constraint is the extension of the supply chain and consequent difficulties of coordination between stakeholders (Masoumi and Nagournay, 2012;Li and Hamblin, 2016;Weraikat et al, 2016b, and other authors cited in column 1 of Appendix G).…”

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Reverse flows within the pharmaceutical supply chain: A classificatory review from the perspective of end-of-use and end-of-life medicines

Viegas

Bond

Vaz

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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A classificatory literature review on medicines reverse flows is performed. Excessive production/demand uncertainty jeopardize medicines reverse flows. Cordination of the forward supply chain is pivotal for medicines reverse logistics. Green chemistry is a form of circular economy in pharmaceutical supply chain. Failures in monitoring of prescriptions hinder the circularity of medicines. Circular economy of medicines requires deeper investigation as business opportunity.

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“…Therefore, medical supply product supplier requirements, such as the degree of environmental cleaner and production level, are different. If there is FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval, the company-established supplier evaluation system is selected according to the characteristics of the product itself with medical supplies, a standard can be more adapted to the company's development and enhance the company's core competitiveness [61][62][63]. The relationship between traditional companies and suppliers are not simply trading relations, because corporate decision-makers think that suppliers cannot change, though you can change the home cooperative attitude of suppliers who are not very friendly in a buyer's market.…”

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Supplier Selection of Medical Consumption Products with a Probabilistic Linguistic MABAC Method

Wei

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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In order to obtain an optimal medical consumption product supplier, the integration of combined weights and multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) under probabilistic linguistic sets (PLTSs) has offered a novel integrated model in which the CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) method is employed for calculating the objective weights of various attributes and the MABAC method with PLTSs is used to acquire the final ranking result of a medical consumption product supplier. Additionally, so as to indicate the applicability of the devised method, this model is confirmed by a numerical case for the supplier selection of medical consumption products. Some comparative studies are made with some existing methods. The proposed method can also successfully select suitable alternatives in other selection problems.

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Economic and social collaborative decision-making on visit interval and service level in a two-echelon pharmaceutical supply chain

Cited by 95 publications

References 47 publications

Proposing channel coordination and horizontal cooperation in two competitive three‐echelon reverse supply chains

Proposing channel coordination and horizontal cooperation in two competitive three‐echelon reverse supply chains

Reverse flows within the pharmaceutical supply chain: A classificatory review from the perspective of end-of-use and end-of-life medicines

Supplier Selection of Medical Consumption Products with a Probabilistic Linguistic MABAC Method

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