Quality supervision and coordination of logistic service supply chain under multi-period conditions

Quality supervision and coordination are critical in realising successful cooperation in the logistics service supply chain (LSSC). To build a closer partnership in the supply chain, collaboration in the LSSC presents multi‐period features. Therefore, the study on the quality of decision‐making problems under multi‐period conditions in the LSSC is practical. Logistic service quality is not easy to measure. Hence, this paper proposes a multi‐period quality coordination model based on the single‐period quality coordination model in a two‐echelon LSSC, and establishes a new model in a three‐echelon LSSC when the logistics service integrator (LSI) is punished. Simulation results indicate that under multi‐period cooperation conditions, the LSI tends to make rapid decisions when punishment intensity is below the critical value. Moreover, for the three‐echelon LSSC, the final equilibrium between sub‐LSI and ultimate FLSP is not associated with punishment intensity that the LSI sets against the sub‐LSI.