Research Article

Three-Echelon Supply Chain Contractual Coordination with Loss-Averse Multiple Retailer Preference

Table 1

The listing of notations.

SymbolMeaning

Retail price
Manufacturer production cost
Manufacturer wholesale price
Distributors wholesale prices
Retailers surplus value
Manufacturer profit
Distributer profit
Retailer profit
SCSupply chain
Retailer market demand
SC total profit
Retailer total order quantity,
The retailer order quantity,
Centralized SC decision-making order quantity
The retailer ordering quantity in decentralized SC
Market demand distribution function
Market demand density function
The random demand of retailer market
, the position of the distribution function
, the position of density function
Between manufacturer and distributor sharing ratio
Between distributor and retailer’s sharing ratio