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Optimization of Pricing and Freshness-Keeping Effort in Fresh e-Commerce Supply Chain considering Online Comments

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  • Quanli Wang
  • Bojun Gu
  • Yufang Fu
  • C. H. Wang

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Considering that online comments play an important role in operational decisions of a fresh e-commerce supply chain, we construct single-stage and two-stage models for fresh produce supply chain consisting of a supplier and a fresh e-commerce platform. Utilizing the Stackelberg game and two-stage repeated game, the profit functions of the supplier and platform are established, and then, the optimal retail price and freshness-keeping effort are derived. In addition, to improve the accuracy of models in describing practical problems, we construct an extended two-stage model and a third-party logistics model. Furthermore, we compare the optimal strategies under different models. Our results show that, firstly, the optimal retail price and freshness-keeping effort of supplier and platform vary in different models and online comments play a positive effect on supplier and platform’s profits. Secondly, compared with the single-stage model, the fresh e-commerce supply chain grabs more market share and profits under the two-stage model. Lastly, online comments vary in different dominance scenarios and may cause competition between supplier and platform for supply chain dominance.

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  • Quanli Wang & Bojun Gu & Yufang Fu & C. H. Wang, 2022. "Optimization of Pricing and Freshness-Keeping Effort in Fresh e-Commerce Supply Chain considering Online Comments," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2022, pages 1-25, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:1473331
    DOI: 10.1155/2022/1473331
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