Research on the Improvement of Supply Chain Management Under Drop-shipping Model

Abstract

Abstract-As the rapid development of E-commerce leads to a new channel operation model, named drop-shipping model. But there still lacking of the related research, and most of the related researches is qualitative study. The paper analyzes the characteristics and advantages of the drop-shipping basic model using the wholesale price contract compared with the traditional model in which the retailers hold the inventory from the perspective of quantitative. The study introduce improvement of supply chain management under drop-shipping model and gives a further research direction.