Price competition and equilibrium analysis in multiple hybrid channel supply chain

4th International Conference on Advanced Composite Materials and Manufacturing Engineering 2017

材料科学;化学

Kuang, Guihua^1 ; Wang, Aihu^1 ; Sha, Jin^1

School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, GUANGDONG

510640, China^1

关键词: Equilibrium analysis;    Equilibrium price;    Logistics industry;    Multiple channels;    Price competition;    Sufficient and necessary condition;    Two-echelon supply chain;    Whole sale prices;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/207/1/012045/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/207/1/012045

学科分类：材料科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The amazing boom of Internet and logistics industry prompts more and more enterprises to sell commodity through multiple channels. Such market conditions make the participants of multiple hybrid channel supply chain compete each other in traditional and direct channel at the same time. This paper builds a two-echelon supply chain model with a single manufacturer and a single retailer who both can choose different channel or channel combination for their own sales, then, discusses the price competition and calculates the equilibrium price under different sales channel selection combinations. Our analysis shows that no matter the manufacturer and retailer choose same or different channel price to compete, the equilibrium price does not necessarily exist the equilibrium price in the multiple hybrid channel supply chain and wholesale price change is not always able to coordinate supply chain completely. We also present the sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of equilibrium price and coordination wholesale price.