Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 311, Issue 3, Pages 989-1008Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2023.06.009
Keywords
Productivity and competitiveness; Cost benefit analysis; Consumption quality; Co-opetition; Procurement cooperation
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This paper investigates whether the industry leader should cooperate with a contract manufacturer (CM) deeply by pooling their component procurement orders when the CM sells its self-branded products with the same consumption quality as the industry leader's. The study identifies two driving forces that shape the industry leader's procurement cooperation decisions and determines an interesting zone in which all parties involved benefit without procurement cooperation. The robustness of the main results is further demonstrated by considering additional factors such as partial spillover in category image promotion and varying investment coefficients.
In practice, consumption quality refers to production quality + category image, where the former is determined by a contract manufacturer (CM) and the latter is promoted by an industry leader. In this paper, we explore whether the industry leader should cooperate with the CM deeply by pooling their component procurement orders when the CM sells its self-branded products with the same consumption quality as the industry leader's. We find that there are two driving forces that shape the industry leader's procurement cooperation decisions: (1) The supplier's pricing power can be constrained under procurement cooperation, resulting in profit foci coordination between the industry leader and the CM, while (2) the industry leader's brand advantage can be either a positive or a negative driving force in its preference of procurement cooperation. We identify an interesting zone with respect to the industry leader's brand advantage in which the industry leader, the CM, and the supplier are better off without procurement cooperation. We further show the robustness of our main results by considering the impact of partial spillover in category image promotion and varying investment coefficients.& COPY; 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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