E-tailer's procurement strategies for drop-shipping: Simultaneous vs. sequential approach to two manufacturers

Guo Li; Xuefeng Zhang; Mengqi Liu

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2019.08.014

E-tailer's procurement strategies for drop-shipping: Simultaneous vs. sequential approach to two manufacturers

Guo Li
, Xuefeng Zhang
, Mengqi Liu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper examines the effect of drop-shipping on the procurement strategy of an e-tailer who sells products for two upstream competing manufacturers. The e-tailer is powerful and determines her approach sequence, thereby resulting in simultaneous and sequential structures. Given an approach structure, we investigate the e-tailer's choice between the pure batch ordering (BO) and hybrid shipping (HS) modes. Interestingly, the e-tailer prefers simultaneous structure over sequential structure in the BO mode, while in the HS mode she chooses sequential structure. In the HS mode, the e-tailer prefers the batch ordering manufacturer to move first.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-127
Number of pages	20
Journal	Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Volume	130
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2019.08.014
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019

Keywords

Competition
Decision structure
Drop-shipping
E-Commerce
Procurement strategy

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