This paper studies financial and production decisions in supply chain composed of one manufacturer and one retailer, where the manufacturer is cash-constrained. We investigate the different decisions of both parties, where the manufacturer or bank is a leader respectively. The results show that the manufacturer's optimal amount of production is less than that in classical newsboy model, that optimal amount of production is negative correlation with loan interest rate; that manufacturer's amount of production is more than its optimal number when the bank becomes the leader, and that optimal loan interest rate and amount of loan are obtained explicitly.
TU Huiyuan,HUA Guowe,WANG Shouyang.
RESEARCH ON OPTIMAL FINANCIAL AND PRODUCTION DECISIONS IN CASH-CONSTRAINED SUPPLY CHAIN. Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences, 2011, 31(11): 1412-1422 https://doi.org/10.12341/jssms11737