The Allocation of Inventory Risk in a Supply Chain: Push, Pull, and Advance - Purchase Discount Contracts

By Gérard P. Cachon. Management Sciences, 2004

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Subfields: Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management

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In Management Information Systems

1. Xuanming Su
2. Abhijeet Ghadge
3. Samir Dani
4. Ruixia Shi
5. Xin Fang
6. Qinghua Li
7. Bo Li
8. Xin Wang

In Strategy and Management

1. Abhijeet Ghadge
2. Samir Dani
3. Ruixia Shi
4. Xin Fang
5. Bo Li
6. Xin Wang
7. Jun Ru
8. Xuanming Su

Citations in the corpus

• Impacts of Power Structure on Supply Chains with Uncertain Demand (2013, background): “Cachon (2004) studies how the allocation of inventory risk with push and pull contracts affects supply chain efficiency.”
• Effects of Consumer‐to‐Consumer Product Sharing on Distribution Channel (2018, neutral): “This large stream literature has studied many issues including inventory optimization and contracts (e.g., Cachon 2004, Dong and Zhu 2007, Granot and Yin 2008), channel coordination and efficiency (e.g., Cui et al. 2007, Jeuland and Shugan 1983, Raju and Zhang 2005, Taylor 2001), product-line or…”
• Supply Chain Risk Management: Present and Future Scope (2012, positive): “Inventory risk is a risk arising from buffer or stock out inventories leading to unnecessary handling cost or lost opportunity cost (Cachon, 2004; Juttner et al., 2003; Childerhouse et al., 2003; Zsidisin, 2003a; Chopra and Sodhi, 2004).”
• Dual-channel supply chain pricing decisions with a risk-averse retailer (2014, background): “Cachon and Uryasev (2004) studied how the allocation of inventory risk impacted supply chain efficiency for three types of wholesale price contracts.”
• Technology Specifications and Production Timing in a Co‐Opetitive Supply Chain (2019, background): “Cachon (2004) investigates how order/production timing influences the allocation of inventory risk and hence supply chain efficiency.”
• Strategic Customer Behavior, Commitment, and Supply Chain Performance (2008, background): “When studying the pull contracts (i.e., the retailer chooses the wholesale price and orders only as needed during the selling season), Cachon (2004) finds that the opposite is true: increasing the supplier’s bargaining power (in the form of a higher minimum profit requirement) would increase supply…”