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The impact of consumer returns policies on consignment contracts with inventory control

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Authors:
  • Hu, W. ;
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  • Li, Y. ;
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  • Govindan, Kannan
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    Department of Business and Economics, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, SDU
DOI:
10.1016/j.ejor.2013.03.015
Abstract:
We consider a consignment contract with consumer non-defective returns behavior. In our model, an upstream vendor contracts with a downstream retailer. The vendor decides his consignment price charged to the retailer for each unit sold and his refund price for each returned item, and then the retailer sets her retail price for selling the product. The vendor gets paid based on net sold units and salvages unsold units as well as returned items in a secondary market. Under the framework, we study and compare two different consignment arrangements: the retailer/vendor manages consignment inventory (RMCI/VMCI) programs. To study the impact of return policy, we discuss a consignment contract without return policy as a benchmark. We show that whether or not the vendor offers a return policy, it is always beneficial for the channel to delegate the inventory decision to the vendor. We find that the vendor's return policy depends crucially on the salvage value of returns. If the product has no salvage value, the vendor's optimal decision is not to offer a return policy; otherwise, the vendor can gain more profit by offering a return policy when the salvage value turns out to be positive.
Type:
Journal article
Language:
English
Published in:
European Journal of Operational Research, 2014, Vol 233, Issue 2
Main Research Area:
Social science
Publication Status:
Published
Review type:
Peer Review
Submission year:
2013
Scientific Level:
Scientific
ID:
247251638

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