The Transporter's Impact on Channel
Coordination and Contractual Agreements
SCALE
Dissertation Support Award Finalist
Fatih Mutlu
Advisor: Sıla Çetinkaya
Industrial Engineering Department
We
study the impact of integrating the transporter in supply chain coordination
using two-stage stylistic models. We analyze single period and infinite horizon
problems with price sensitive deterministic demand and price independent
stochastic demand. We study the corresponding centralized models for a
single-supplier, -buyer, and –transporter setting. We also investigate the
counterpart decentralized models in cooperative and non-cooperative game
theoretic settings. We test the performance of widely used coordination
mechanisms, i.e. freight discounts, and show that they are not sufficient to
coordinate the system, and, hence, we develop other coordination mechanisms,
i.e. revenue sharing contracts, and investigate whether they can coordinate the
system.