Research Article

Information Sharing in a Closed-Loop Supply Chain with Asymmetric Demand Forecasts

Table 3

Notations of the demand forecast model.

SymbolsDefinitions

The mean of the potential market demand
The random part of the market demand
The variance of
The manufacturer’s forecast
The retailer’s forecast
The forecast error of the manufacturer
The forecast error of the retailer
The extent of correlation between and
The variance of
The variance of