Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2020
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Abstract
This study investigates the efficacy of zero-interest early payment financing (alternatively referred to as early payment) and positive-interest in-house factoring financing in a pull supply chain with a capital-constrained manufacturer selling a product through a capital-abundant retailer. Early payment is the prepayment of a wholesale cost to the manufacturer, whereas in-house factoring is a loan service provided to the manufacturer by a branch financing firm of the same retailer. We find that the retailer prefers early payment financing to bank financing when the manufacturer’s production cost is low. If the retailer instead offers positive-interest in-house factoring financing to the manufacturer, then the financing equilibrium domain enlarges as compared to bank financing. Interestingly, early payment financing can outplay positive-interest in-house factoring financing if the production cost is considerably low; otherwise, vice versa. When the production cost is big enough, the retailer will not provide either early payment or in-house factoring. Furthermore, our main qualitative result sustains with an identical wholesale price across all three financing schemes and the financing equilibrium domain of early payment shrinks as demand variability grows.
Recommended Citation
Chen, X., Lu, Q., & Cai, G. (George). (2020). Buyer Financing in Pull Supply Chains: Zero-Interest Early Payment or In-House Factoring? Production and Operations Management, 29(10), 2307–2325. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13225
Comments
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chen, X., Lu, Q., & Cai, G. (George). (2020). Buyer Financing in Pull Supply Chains: Zero-Interest Early Payment or In-House Factoring? Production and Operations Management, 29(10), 2307–2325. , which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13225. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.