Ying Dai

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Southwest Jiaotong University

Many governments worldwide offer various types of consumer‐specific subsidy programs, such as a trade‐in subsidy (TS) program that targets existing consumers only, a consumption subsidy (CS) program that covers both new and existing consumers with undifferentiated subsidy levels, or a mixed subsidy (MS) program that targets the two consumer segment...

This study investigates the joint trade‐in rebate strategies in a supply chain with independent manufacturers selling substitutable products via a dominant retailer. We model their interplay as a Stackelberg game and analyze their joint trade‐in rebate decisions. We find that the differentiated trade‐in rebate scheme is better for the retailer, and...

This study proposes a cooperative rich vehicle routing problem (CoRVRP) among three typical logistics providers in the last-mile logistics industry in rural areas. The problem is formulated based on the information fusion system and the ordering interface system, and it is solved by a proposed branch-price-and-cut algorithm. Based on the optimized...

Apiculture has gained worldwide interest because of its contributions to economic incomes and environmental conservation. In view of these, migratory beekeeping, as a high-yielding technique, is extensively adopted. However, because of the lack of an overall routing plan, beekeepers who follow the experiential migratory routes frequently encounter...

As observed in real world practices, trade-ins can be offered by either the manufacturer or the retailer. The party offering the trade-in program faces the trade-off between the fixed trade-in cost incurred and the additional revenue generated. By conducting a game-theoretic study, we analytically explore in this paper the optimal choice of trade-i...

This paper measures the worst‐case efficiency of price‐only contracts in closed‐loop supply chains (CLSCs) with the price of anarchy (PoA). We model a single‐period Stackelberg game in which a manufacturer sells new products to a retailer and collects used products with exogenous retail price and collection price via three alternative reverse chann...

Large-scale sudden-onset disasters may cause massive injuries and thus place great pressure on the emergency blood supplies of local blood banks. When blood is in short supply, blood products gathered urgently to a local blood center should be appropriately allocated to blood banks in the affected area. Moreover, ABO/Rh(D) compatibilities among blo...

The multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problem, in which both the attribute weights and the expert weights are correlated and the attribute values take the form of interval grey linguistic (IGL) variables, is investigated in this paper. First, based on the relative concepts of IGL variables and the operation rules between IGL variable...

Under the coexistence of “trade old for new” (TON) and “trade old for remanufactured” (TOR) programs, we study a firm’s optimal pricing decisions and identify the thresholds that determine whether the firm should offer TON and TOR simultaneously. The result shows that adopting two kinds of trade-ins simultaneously does not necessarily benefit the f...

This paper addresses a real-life delivery problem often encountered by urban perishable product deliverers, in which the providers suffer losses from failed delivery, such as product deterioration or violating customers’ time windows, especially when delivery orders accepted are beyond the providers’ delivery capacity. To the best of our knowledge,...

In this paper, we propose five typical contracts to coordinate decentralized reverse supply chains with strategic recycling behavior of consumers. First, a reverse supply chain model with strategic recycling behavior of consumers is developed based on the classical newsvendor problem. Next, after analyzing the wholesale price contract, we find that...

To quantify the efficiency of decentralized competitive reverse supply chains (RSCs) with quality-dependent price-only contracts, we characterize the worst-case efficiency loss with the price of anarchy (PoA). Several scenarios with unilateral or bilateral horizontal competition under push or pull configurations of RSCs are discussed. Given the unc...

The importance of closed-loop supply chains has been widely recognized in literature and in practice. The paper investigates interactions among the different parties in a three-echelon closed-loop supply chain consisting of a single manufacturer, a single retailer and two recyclers and focuses on how cooperative strategies affect closed-loop supply...