Quick response in manufacturer-retailer channels
Management Science - Special issue on frontier research in manufacturing and logistics
Supplier selection and order lot sizing modeling: A review
Computers and Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Does a Manufacturer Benefit from Selling to a Better-Forecasting Retailer?
Management Science
Unreliable newsboy problem with a forecast update
Operations Research Letters
Pathwise Optimization for Optimal Stopping Problems
Management Science
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Carbon emission tax is an important measure for sustainable supply chain management. This paper studies an optimal supplier selection problem in the fashion apparel supply chain in the presence of carbon emission tax. We consider the scenario in which there are multiple suppliers in the market. In the basic model, each supplier offers a supply lead time and a wholesale pricing contract to the fashion retail buyer. For the fashion retail buyer, the supplier which offers a shorter lead time allows it to postpone the ordering decision with updated and better forecast, and also a smaller carbon tax. However, the wholesale price is usually larger. We propose a two-phase optimal supplier selection scheme in which phase one filters the inferior suppliers and phase two helps to select the best supplier among the set of non-inferior suppliers by multi-stage stochastic dynamic programming. The impacts brought by different formats of carbon emission tax are explored. Finally, we examine an extended model in which there is a local supplier who offers a buyback contract and accepts product returns. Insights from the analysis are discussed.