[article]
Titre : |
Improving supply chain performance and managing risk under weather-related demand uncertainty |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Frank Youhua Chen, Auteur ; Candace Arai Yano, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2010 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 1380-1397 |
Note générale : |
Management |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Weather-linked rebate Weather risk derivatives Supply chain coordination |
Index. décimale : |
658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce |
Résumé : |
We consider a manufacturer-retailer supply chain for a seasonal product whose demand is weather sensitive. The retailer orders from the manufacturer (supplier) prior to the selling season and then sells to the market. We examine how a manufacturer can structure a weather-linked rebate to improve his expected profit. The proposed class of rebate contracts offers several advantages over many other contract structures, including no required verification of leftover inventory and/or markdown amounts, and no adverse effect on sales effort by the retailer. We provide a thorough analysis of the manufacturer's and retailer's decisions in this context. We show that the weather-linked rebate can take many different forms, and this flexibility allows the supplier to design contracts that are Pareto improving and/or limit his risk in offering the contract and the retailer's risk in accepting it. For weather rebates with certain characteristics, the manufacturer can fully hedge his risks of offering a weather rebate by paying a risk premium; we show how this can be accomplished. We also show that the basic structural results extend to settings in which the two parties would like to limit their risk. |
DEWEY : |
658 |
ISSN : |
0025-1909 |
En ligne : |
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/56/8.toc |
in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 8 (Août 2010) . - pp. 1380-1397
[article] Improving supply chain performance and managing risk under weather-related demand uncertainty [texte imprimé] / Frank Youhua Chen, Auteur ; Candace Arai Yano, Auteur . - 2010 . - pp. 1380-1397. Management Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Management science > Vol. 56 N° 8 (Août 2010) . - pp. 1380-1397
Mots-clés : |
Weather-linked rebate Weather risk derivatives Supply chain coordination |
Index. décimale : |
658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce |
Résumé : |
We consider a manufacturer-retailer supply chain for a seasonal product whose demand is weather sensitive. The retailer orders from the manufacturer (supplier) prior to the selling season and then sells to the market. We examine how a manufacturer can structure a weather-linked rebate to improve his expected profit. The proposed class of rebate contracts offers several advantages over many other contract structures, including no required verification of leftover inventory and/or markdown amounts, and no adverse effect on sales effort by the retailer. We provide a thorough analysis of the manufacturer's and retailer's decisions in this context. We show that the weather-linked rebate can take many different forms, and this flexibility allows the supplier to design contracts that are Pareto improving and/or limit his risk in offering the contract and the retailer's risk in accepting it. For weather rebates with certain characteristics, the manufacturer can fully hedge his risks of offering a weather rebate by paying a risk premium; we show how this can be accomplished. We also show that the basic structural results extend to settings in which the two parties would like to limit their risk. |
DEWEY : |
658 |
ISSN : |
0025-1909 |
En ligne : |
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/56/8.toc |
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