A Supply Chain Network Intertemporal Equilibrium Model with Multi-commodity Inventory and Transportation

Equilibrium analyses of supply chain network are increasingly applied as tools that assist in better adjutsing policy and responsing to exogenous shocks. This paper studies the members´ competition in a three-level supply chain network under a sound supply chain inventory pattern. It first establishes an intertemporal equilibrium model for each level and a total network intertemporal equilibrium model based on variational inequality and then concludes the equilibrium conditions for the system. This paper also provides economic explanations and validates it with an example.