Along with the development of B2B electronic market, companies start to use spot markets combining their traditional long-term procurement contracts (forward contracts) to procure commodity. In this paper, the mathematical model of optimal procurement strategies in electronic market is established.
We consider two types of factors: the public factor and specific factors.The former affects both the demand and the spot price, while the latter only affect the demand or the spot price.The optimal strategies are obtained and the sensitivity analysis is given with respect to all major parameters. The result shows that when the correlation coefficient is not zero, the effect of the demand's volatility to the optimal contract quantity and optimal expected profits is only related with the public factor, and is independent of the demand specific factor. While the correlation coefficient is zero, the effect of the price's volatility to the optimal contract quantity and optimal expected profits is only related with the price specific factor, and is independent of the public factor.
XING Wei, HU Pingping, MA Shanshan, LIU Tianliang.
OPTIMAL PROCUREMENT STRATEGIES IN A SUPPLY CHAIN WITH ELECTRONIC MARKET. Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical Sciences, 2011, 31(11): 1478-1490 https://doi.org/10.12341/jssms11744