This document summarizes and evaluates different supply chain strategies for a model with one vendor and multiple buyers. It finds that strategies involving consignment inventory, delayed deliveries, and information sharing between buyers can optimize supply chain costs and other decision variables. Specifically:
1) A strategy combining consignment inventory, delayed deliveries of up to 4 shipments, and information sharing between 2 buyers achieved the lowest total supply chain cost of $3,120.
2) In general, involving more buyers in the supply chain through models with information sharing resulted in greater cost savings compared to models without information sharing.
3) Maintaining the production to demand ratio close to 3.2 optimized the balance between total supply chain