Optimal Strategies for a Monopoly Intermediary in the Supply Chain of Complementary Web Services.
Qian Candy TangHsing Kenneth ChengPublished in: J. Manag. Inf. Syst. (2007)
Keyphrases
- supply chain
- optimal strategy
- web services
- supply chain management
- decision problems
- bullwhip effect
- monte carlo
- operating costs
- quantity discount
- business processes
- lead time
- supplier selection
- mathematical models
- decision making
- inventory management
- expected cost
- service level
- expected utility
- quality of service
- revenue sharing
- customer demand
- computational complexity
- cost savings
- small and medium size
- learning algorithm
- rfid technology
- inventory control
- optimal policy
- lower bound
- cooperative game
- product life cycle
- multi agent
- stackelberg game
- objective function