Manufacturers'Procurement Strategies under Supply Chain Disruption Risk in Public Health Emergency
The sudden COVID-19 has had a great impact on the life and safety of our people and economic activi-ties.As an important part of economic activities,supply chain has inevitably been affected.How to deal with the disruption of supply chain is an important challenge for enterprises.To reduce the impact of epidemic on the supply chain,this paper studies the manufacturer's procurement strategy at the risk of supply chain interruption.By introducing option contracts and analyzing factors such as the existence of alternative products in the market and the risk of supply interruption from the main supplier,four different scenarios are constructed to study procurement models composed of a low price unreliable main supplier,a high price reliable backup supplier,and a risk averse manufacturer under different scenarios.The four scenarios considered in this article are:Scenario 1:there is no substitute product in the market,and the main supplier does not experience supply interruption.Scenario 2:there is no substitute product in the market,and the main supplier experiences a supply interrup-tion.Scenario 3:there are alternative products in the market,and the main supplier does not experience supply interruption.Scenario 4:there are alternative products in the market,and the main supplier experiences a supply interruption.Through the calculation of the model,the following conclusions are drawn:(1)Market demand and procurement price are important factors affecting the manufacturer's optimal procurement volume.When the main supplier is interrupted,its reliability has also become a factor affecting the manufacturer's procurement.(2)When the influencing factors such as market demand,reliability and cost of main suppliers change,the manufacturer's optimal procurement decision for main suppliers and the choice of emergency strategy for supply chain interruption will change.(3)Only when the supply price of the main supplier is less than the difference between the sales price of the product sold by the manufacturer to the market and its own manufacturing cost,the manufacturer's optimal purchase quantity will increase with the increase in the option exercise price.Finally,the numerical simulation model is used to study the manufacturer's optimal purchasing decision and the interaction between the parameters when the market demand,the manufacturer's purchasing price from the main supplier and the interruption risk of the main supplier take different values.This article does not consider the possible relationship between manufacturers and manufacturers producing substitute products,that is,when studying the existence of manufacturers producing substitute products in the market,it does not consider the overlap of manufacturers.In the future,it can be considered that there are the same manufacturers among suppliers,that is,manufacturers produce both products they research and develop,and their substitute products,and study the decisions of manufacturers and suppliers at this time.