Coordinating contracts for supply chains that market with mail-in rebates and retailer promotions

Coordinating contracts for supply chains that market with mail-in rebates and retailer promotions

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Article ID: iaor201529872
Volume: 66
Issue: 12
Start Page Number: 2025
End Page Number: 2036
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: retailing, marketing
Abstract:

Marketing promotions are pervasive in industry, yet too often they are introduced without regard to their potential impact on the whole supply chain. This paper considers a cooperative business environment where a manufacturer and a retailer work interactively in determining their independent sales promotional actions. We use a newsvendor‐modelling framework to study coordinating issues when the manufacturer provides mail‐in rebates directly to consumers while the retailer exerts promotional effort to further spur consumer demand. We find that quantity discount contracts in conjunction with buy‐back achieve supply chain coordination. Successful coordination can result in significant supply chain improvement, which leads the retailer to order more units and exert higher promotional effort level. With numerical examples, we provide additional insights on the conditions for the manufacturer to offer rebates.

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