Wholesale-price contracts with postponed and fixed retail prices

Abstract We study the wholesale-price contract with retail price-postponement in a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. For additive and multiplicative demand models, we establish sufficient conditions for the unimodality of profit functions and derive unique optimal solutions. We also extend existing results on the fixed retail price case and a revenue management problem.

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