Computers play the beer game: can artificial agents manage supply chains?
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Formal modeling and electronic commerce
Multi-Agent coordination based on tokens: reduction of the bullwhip effect in a forest supply chain
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Newsvendor Bounds and Heuristic for Optimal Policies in Serial Supply Chains
Management Science
Equilibrium stability in decentralized design systems
International Journal of Systems Science
Agent-based demand forecast in multi-echelon supply chain
Decision Support Systems
Bargaining for cooperative economic ordering
Decision Support Systems
Inventory Management with Asset-Based Financing
Management Science
Supply Chain Choice on the Internet
Management Science
Time Value of Commercial Product Returns
Management Science
Analysis of a Decentralized Supply Chain Under Partial Cooperation
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
A Supply Chain Model with Reverse Information Exchange
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Competition, Cooperation, and Information Sharing in a Two-Echelon Assembly System
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Inventory Policies in a Decentralized Assembly System
Operations Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Computational receding horizon approach to safe trajectory tracking
Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Inventory control in a decentralised two-stage make-to-stock queueing system
International Journal of Systems Science - Production Coordination and Inventory Policies
Supply chain coordination by revenue-sharing contract with fuzzy demand
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
Distributed search for supply chain coordination
Computers in Industry
Contracting in Supply Chains: A Laboratory Investigation
Management Science
The Coordination of Pricing and Scheduling Decisions
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Competition and Cooperation in a Two-Stage Supply Chain with Demand Forecasts
Operations Research
A hybrid solution to collaborative decision-making in a decentralized supply-chain
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
A new revenue sharing mechanism for coordinating multi-echelon supply chains
Operations Research Letters
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
International Journal of Advanced Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
A Simulation Study of Supply Chain Management to Measure the Impact of Information Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
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Consider a supply chain in which a product must pass through multiple sites located in series before it is finally delivered to outside customers. Incentive problems may arise in this system when decisions are delegated to corresponding site managers, each maximizing his/her own performance metric. From the overall system's point of view, the decentralized supply chain may not be as efficient as the centralized one. In practice, alternative performance mechanisms are often used to align the incentives of the different managers in a supply chain. This paper discusses the cost conservation, incentive compatibility, and informational decentralizability properties of these mechanisms. In particular, for a special type of supply chain, we show that a performance measurement scheme involving transfer pricing, consignment, shortage reimbursement, and an additional backlog penalty at the last downstream site satisfies all these properties.