Effect of Inventory Information Discrepancy in a Drop-Shipping Supply Chain
- Authors
- Cheong, Taesu; Goh, Mark; Song, Sang Hwa
- Issue Date
- Feb-2015
- Publisher
- WILEY-BLACKWELL
- Keywords
- Drop-Shipping; Inventory Information Discrepancy
- Citation
- DECISION SCIENCES, v.46, no.1, pp.193 - 213
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- DECISION SCIENCES
- Volume
- 46
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 193
- End Page
- 213
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/94527
- DOI
- 10.1111/deci.12122
- ISSN
- 0011-7315
- Abstract
- This article investigates the impact of information discrepancy between a drop-shipper and an online retailer on the drop-shipping supply chain performance. The inventory information misalignment between them contributes to the failure of order fulfillment and demand satisfaction, and hence the associated penalties are incurred. In this article, we first analyze the penalties of ignoring such information discrepancy on both the drop-shipper and the online retailer. We then assess the impact of information discrepancy on both parties when the drop-shipper understands the existence of the information discrepancy but is not able to eliminate the errors. The numerical experiments indicate that both parties can have significant amount of the percentage cost reductions if the information discrepancy can be eliminated, and the potential savings are substantial especially when the errors have large variability. Furthermore, we observe that the online retailer is more vulnerable to information discrepancy than the drop-shipper, and the drop-shipper is likely to suffer from the online retailer's underestimation of the physical inventory level more than the problem of its overestimation. Moreover, even if eliminating errors is not possible, both parties could still benefit from taking the possibility of errors into consideration in decision making.
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