Research Article

Coordination of Time-Varying Price Supply Chain with Risk-Averse Members under Random Order Response Time

Table 1

Symbol notation.

SymbolNotation

Market demand,
Cumulative distribution function of x
Probability density function of x
Manufacturers’ unit production cost
Retailers’ unit marginal cost
Manufacturers’ unit wholesale price
Manufacturers’ expected wholesale price
Unit residual value
Order quantity
Response time,
Cumulative distribution function of t
Probability density function of t
Retailer’s utility function
Utility of the whole supply chain
Price of unit products
Price of unit products as t = 0
PExpected price of unit products
Sensitivity of p to t
Risk aversion coefficient of the supply chain
Risk aversion coefficient of manufacturers
Risk aversion coefficient of the retailer
Manufacturers’ expected profit
Retailers’ expected profit
Expected profit of the supply chain
Subsidy ratio
Revenue-sharing ratio