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Green supply chain analysis considering extended warranty with uncertain factors based on confidence level

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Green supply chain management attracts wide attention due to lacking resources and greenhouse effect. More significantly, extended warranty service can boost supply chain members’ profit and enhance the products’ competitiveness. Additionally, we don’t have enough historical data to infer quantity of demand for a new environment friendly product. Therefore, extended warranty service is considered and uncertainty theory is applied in the analysis of supply chain. Then we study a green supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer considering extended warranty service, where the demand of product is represented by uncertain variable. Assuming that both manufacturer and retailer aim to maximize the profit under confidence level, we present centralized channel case, decentralized channel case and cost sharing case, and respectively obtain equilibrium solutions. Next, we analyze decisions and profits between decentralized channel case and cost sharing case. The result shows that the coefficient of greening investment and the cost rate of extended warranty service have a positive impact on cost sharing proportion. What’s more, profit in the cost sharing case has a better performance than the one in decentralized channel case.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 72101080), Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (Grant no. F2020202056), and the Key Project of Hebei Education Department (Grant no. ZD2020125).

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Gao, R., Zhao, Z. Green supply chain analysis considering extended warranty with uncertain factors based on confidence level. J Ambient Intell Human Comput 14, 14153–14162 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-022-04158-4

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