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1
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Main make to order contracts

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Wholesale price contract
Buy back contract
Revenue sharing contract

2
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Main make to stock contracts

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Wholesale price contract
Pay back contract
Cost sharing contract

3
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Make to order

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Supplier produces after order

4
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Make to stock

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Supplier produces before order

5
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Wholesale pricing contracts

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Supplier produces, sells to retailer, sells to customer. Anything left over can have residual value

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Buy back contract

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Producer agrees to buy back goods that are not sold for pre determined price

  1. Effective reverse logistics
  2. May increase logistics costs
  3. Buyers incentive to push competing products
7
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Pay back contract

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Retailer pays a certain price for each unit that is produced but not bought by the retailer

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Revenue sharing contract

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Supplier lowers selling price for retailer in exchange for a percentage of the revenue

  1. Monitoring of buyer’s revenue
  2. Increase in administrative costs
  3. Buyers incentive to push competing products
9
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Cost sharing contract

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Retailer shares in the production costs of the producer and can acquire lower selling price from producer
1. Requires sharing production cost information

10
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Quantity flexibility contracts

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Make to order

Producer buys unsold goods back for the full price up until a certain number of goods

11
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Sales rebate contracts

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Make to order

Producer pays retailer a bonus for each unit that the retailer sells above a certain quantity

12
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Capacity reservation contracts

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Make to stock
Retailer reserves a certain capacity for the producer and retailer offers these to consumer. Retailer then buys based on demand and pays premium for reservation

13
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Advance purchase contracts

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Make to stock
Retailer pays in advance before production. Producer will use different price for each ordered above the ordered quantity.

14
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Non strategic products contracts

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Non strategic products are essential for companies like paper or wood.
Long term contracts - Fixed contracts for fixed price
Flexible/option contract - Buyer pays small part of price in advance for supplier to reserve capacity. exercise price afterward
Spot market
Portfolio contract (hedging)

15
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Arm’s length transactions

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Short term agreements e.g. transaction between buyer and seller

16
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Strategic alliances + forms

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Long term partnership with supplier. e.g. KLM and SkyTeam
Third-party logistics
Retailer-supplier partnerships
Distributor integration

17
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Third party logistics

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Using external party to perform all or some of SC functions. Enables company to focus on core competencies, however loss of control

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Retailer supplier partnerships (3 types)

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Information sharing between retailer and supplier

  1. Quick response - Suppliers receive POS data, inventories ordered by retailer
  2. Continuous replenishment - Suppliers receive POS data and prepare deliveries pre agreed upon intervals
  3. Vendor Managed Inventory - Supplier full decision making authority over inventory levels of retailer
19
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Point of sale data

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Real time data generated at the moment a product is sold

20
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Distributor integration

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Distributors become partners with one another. Share info and work together to optimise service levels
e.g. Toyota integrating distributors