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Bilateral transshipment between competing retailers
Fu,Qi1; Liu,Liming2; Shang,Weixin3
2023
Source PublicationNaval Research Logistics
ABS Journal Level3
ISSN0894-069X
Issue70Pages:509-521
Abstract

This article investigates whether and how competing retailers should transship to each other in overlapping markets where customers encountering stock-out at one retailer may switch to another. A two-stage game model is used to examine the inventory and end-of-season transshipment decisions. We show that, instead of unconditional full-transshipment for the case of non-competing retailers, the stage-2 optimal transshipment policy consists of no-transshipment, partial-transshipment, and full-transshipment, determined by the interplay of switching probability, transshipment price, and remaining inventory. We find that transshipment dampens (respectively, intensifies) the inventory competition when the transshipment price is viable and below (respectively, above) a threshold. In addition to its inventory pooling effect, transshipment under competition also has a competition effect which is positive when transshipment dampens inventory competition but not too strongly. The option of bilateral transshipment leads to a Pareto improvement for competing retailers, when the competition effect is positive; but even when it is negative, Pareto improvement is still achievable for a wider transshipment price range in which the combined pooling and competition effect is positive. We identify explicitly the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique pair of coordinating transshipment prices and provide formulas to compute them.

KeywordBilateral Transshipment Competition Effect Coordinating Transshipment Prices Customer Switching Pareto Improvement Pooling Effect
DOI10.1002/nav.22105
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaOperations Research & Management Science
WOS SubjectOperations Research & Management Science
WOS IDWOS:000950878900001
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85150807203
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Corresponding AuthorLiu,Liming
Affiliation1.Faculty of Business Administration,University of Macau,Taipa,Macao
2.School of Business,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,China
3.Faculty of Business,Lingnan University,Tuen Mun,New Territories,Hong Kong
First Author AffilicationFaculty of Business Administration
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Fu,Qi,Liu,Liming,Shang,Weixin. Bilateral transshipment between competing retailers[J]. Naval Research Logistics, 2023(70), 509-521.
APA Fu,Qi., Liu,Liming., & Shang,Weixin (2023). Bilateral transshipment between competing retailers. Naval Research Logistics(70), 509-521.
MLA Fu,Qi,et al."Bilateral transshipment between competing retailers".Naval Research Logistics .70(2023):509-521.
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