Article ID: | iaor20083796 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 175 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 1 |
End Page Number: | 15 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Goyal S.K., Acharya D., Sarmah S.P. |
Keywords: | inventory: order policies |
Coordination between two different business entities is an important way to gain competitive advantage as it lowers supply chain cost. This paper reviews literature dealing with buyer vendor coordination models that have used quantity discount as coordination mechanism under deterministic environment and classified the various models. An effort has also been made to identify critical issues and scope of future research.