Subcontracting price schemes for order acceptance and scheduling

Wang, Xiuli; Zhu, Qianqian; Cheng, T.C.E.

doi:10.1016/j.omega.2015.01.005

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“…Substituting Equations ( 18)-( 21) and ( 22)-(24) into Equations ( 12) and (13) shows that the optimal profit of the retailers and manufacturers under the decentralized decision scenarios is 25) and ( 26), the overall optimal profit of the supply chain under the decentralized decision is…”

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“…Cai et al [12] researched a variety of dual-channel supply chain structures and designed a price contract to enable the coordination of multiple dual channels. Wang et al [13] designed a fixed pricing and transfer payment plan, and a quantity discount pricing plan to coordinate the decisions of each member of a supply chain. Some scholars start with two-step pricing contracts in dual-channel supply chain research.…”

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Two-Step Pricing Decision Models for Manufacturer-Led Dual-Channel Supply Chains

Zhang

Zhao

2022

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In this paper, we study the optimal profit change in a manufacturer-led dual-channel supply chain under centralized decision-making and decentralized decision-making scenarios. The supply chain is composed of only a single supplier, a manufacturer, and a retailer, and the manufacturer plays a leading role in the supply chain. Meanwhile, the following conditions exist simultaneously: the promotion levels of retailers in offline physical stores, the promotion compensation given by manufacturers to retailers, and channel competition. In order to coordinate the profits of channel members, a two-step pricing decision model is established. This research shows that using a two-step pricing decision model can make the retailer’s optimal promotion fees and the manufacturer’s optimal sales compensation fees the same as the centralized decision-making’s optimal values; however, the results are not good, because after the coordination, the retailer’s profits increase and the manufacturer’s profits decrease, and, as a consequence, the retailer needs to pay a fixed fee to the manufacturer within the validity of the contract, which is signed by both sides, to achieve a win–win situation for the channel members.

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Two-Step Pricing Decision Models for Manufacturer-Led Dual-Channel Supply Chains

Zhang

Zhao

2022

Sustainability

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“…Again, problems of this kind do not include fixed time intervals for jobs and the possibility of processing the same job by in-house and third-party machines. Publications on scheduling with sub-contracting include Chen and Li [9], Qi [27], Mokhtari and Abadi [26], Zhong and Huo [36], Vairaktarakis [33], Wang et al [35], Hezarkhani and Kubiak [18], Vairaktarakis and Aydinliyim [34], Ren et al [28], and the references therein.…”

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Fixed interval scheduling with third‐party machines

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We study a problem of scheduling n jobs on machines of two types: in‐house machines and third‐party machines. Scheduling on in‐house machines incurs no additional costs, while using third‐party machines implies costs depending on their number and the time of usage. Each job has a fixed time interval for being processed which can be divided and allocated among several machines, as long as there is only one machine processing the job at any time. No machine can process more than one job at a time. Jobs can be rejected, and they are of different importance that is reflected in the weight of each job. The objective is to find a subset of the jobs and the number of third‐party machines for any period of time so that the accepted jobs can be feasibly scheduled, the total weight of the accepted jobs is maximized, and the total machine usage costs does not exceed a given upper bound. We also study a similar problem in which the objective is to maximize the total time at which at least one job is processed. Both problems are encountered in situations in which certain activities with given start and completion times have to be serviced by human operators. Examples are air traffic control and the monitoring safe vehicle unloading. Other examples are the employment of subcontractors in agriculture, construction or transportation. We will present NP‐hardness proofs, polynomial and pseudo‐polynomial optimal algorithms and an approximation algorithm for these problems and their special cases. These problems admit graph‐theoretical interpretations associated with finding independent sets and a proper vertex coloring in interval graphs.

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“…Wang et al investigated the problem of timing and acceptance of the order with the possibility of outsourcing in a few modes. The objective function is equal to accepted order minus the cost of outsourcing [5]. Lu et al presented the accurate polynomial time algorithm for optimal solution of scheduling problem and of rejecting the order in a single machine mode [6].…”

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The production-distribution problem with order acceptance and package delivery: models and algorithm

2016

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-The production planning and distribution are among the most important decisions in the supply chain. Classically, in this problem, it is assumed that all orders have to produced and separately delivered; while, in practice, an order may be rejected if the cost that it brings to the supply chain exceeds its revenue. Moreover, orders can be delivered in a batch to reduce the related costs. This paper considers the production planning and distribution problem with order acceptance and package delivery to maximize the profit. At first, a new mathematical model based on mixed integer linear programming is developed. Using commercial optimization software, the model can optimally solve small or even medium sized instances. For large instances, a solution method, based on imperialist competitive algorithms, is also proposed. Using numerical experiments, the proposed model and algorithm are evaluated. Key words:The production planning and distribution problem, Order acceptance, Scheduling, The package delivery, Imperialist competitive algorithm The research's topicGenerally, the production planning is done in the shortterm, mid-term and long-term of the three horizons of the time. The scheduling contains: the decision making in related to the production planning in the short-term time horizon which allocates the production capacity to the production targets. Its output is the exact determination of this issue that in which time and on what machine it should be process.Deciding about the good's delivery to the customers that it is a process in the short-term time horizon, -along with the supply and the production issues -is of the important decisions of every production complex. The package delivery is one of the delivery approaches. The delivery process is always done next to the production process. On the other hand, in the cases of we are required to respecting the delivery time determined by the customer, we obligate to coordinating the production program with the delivery requirements. As a result, the production and the delivery decisions are totally related to each other, so it is better that these two issues would be checked as integrated and simultaneous. In considering of the scheduling's issue in the production and the package delivery approach to the delivery subject, the integrated issue will be contain the scheduling simultaneous determination and the package delivery. In the short-term time horizon, the available capacity of the production system is limited and usually is less than the necessary capacity for processing of all of the orders received by the system. So, a correct decision-making for the production planning, in addition to the scheduling determination and the works' implementation sequence, includes the choice of the best orders from the orders' basket received by the system. The approach of the orders' choice from the received orders' basket, is named so-called the order's acceptance. The main idea of this study is presenting of an integrated issue in order to the simultaneous deter...

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Subcontracting price schemes for order acceptance and scheduling

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Two-Step Pricing Decision Models for Manufacturer-Led Dual-Channel Supply Chains

Two-Step Pricing Decision Models for Manufacturer-Led Dual-Channel Supply Chains

Fixed interval scheduling with third‐party machines

The production-distribution problem with order acceptance and package delivery: models and algorithm

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