Research on Coordination Complexity of E-Commerce Logistics Service Supply Chain

Abstract

With the rapid growth of E-commerce business, logistics service, especially the last-mile distribution, has become one bottleneck, which leads to the rise of coordination complexity of logistics service supply chain (LSSC). This research, based on Stackelberg’s game theory, studies the coordination of a new three-echelon LSSC consisting of an E-commerce mall, an express company, and a terminal distribution service provider and investigates the optimal solutions and profits for each party within the semicentralized and centralized LSSC alliances, respectively. To accomplish this, it firstly shows that the three-echelon LSSC can lead to global optimum under the centralized decision-making scenario and then deploys the contract coordination schemes, including revenue sharing, cost sharing, and unit delivery price contracts, in three semicentralized alliances, so as to achieve the same performance of the centralized decision-making scenario, in which each party in the LSSC can achieve the win-win situation. Finally, numerical examples are provided to illustrate the feasibility and the effectiveness of the proposed coordination strategies. This study enriches the coordination theory in the field of LSSC and provides managerial insights for decision makers in LSSC.

Inventory and Ordering Decisions in Dual‐Channel Supply Chains Involving Free Riding and Consumer Switching Behavior with Supply Chain Financing

“…Xie et al [48] investigated the impact of relative bargaining power and income uncertainty on the performance of buyback contract by developing a Complexity two-echelon supply chain including one seller and one buyer and considered that the buyer had uncertain demand and income. Zhong et al [49] researched the coordination effect of unit delivery price, cost sharing, and revenue sharing contracts in the three semicentralized alliances by developing a three-stage supply chain composed of express company, e-commerce mall, and terminal distribution service provider based on Stackelberg game theory. Table 1 lists some key-related literature so as to illustrate the innovation and contribution of this work.…”

“…is section proposes a coordination contract: the supplier partially buys back the retailer's surplus inventory with a certain proportion (u) at the wholesale price w. And the coordination method is based on the research of Zhong et al [49].…”

Effects of Partnership Quality and Information Sharing on Express Delivery Service Performance in the E-commerce Industry

“…Economic sustainability is a way for E-commerce enterprises to economize available resources to maximize profits [6]. However, with the rapid development of E-commerce and the express delivery industry, uncoordinated problems between E-commerce enterprises and the express delivery service providers (EDSPs) have gradually been exposed [7,8]. For example, under normal circumstances, online shoppers receive the goods on time after placing orders.…”

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“…Dado o alto nível de globalização, o desenvolvimento da internet e a crescente exigência dos demandantes por itens e serviços, um dos conceitos com grande dominância na era digital é o e-commerce (Xiao, Kuang, & Chen, 2020). Entre os clientes, muitos apontam que grande parte do sucesso desse formato se deve ao fato da transação incluir comodidade de compra, comparação de preço, facilidade de acesso e, de modo geral, as lojas virtuais praticarem preços mais baixos quando comparado ao comércio físico (Zhong, Guo, Tang, Chen, & Xin, 2020).…”

“…Não obstante, tal cenário resulta em uma complexidade logística na gestão da entrega de produtos, fato que tem contribuído consideravelmente para o desenvolvimento de atividades e operações estratégicas de distribuição (Liu & Yan, 2017;Zhong, Guo, Tang, Chen, & Xin, 2020). Segundo Cooper, Lambert and Pagh (1997), Ambrosino and Scutellà (2005) e Chopra e Meindl (2016), o desempenho das atividades da rede de distribuição, depende da otimização obtida por meio da estratégia de localização das instalações e correta alocação de itens.…”