Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: ,  consider a buyer who designs a product and owns the brand, yet outsources the production to a supplier. Both the buyer and the supplier incur quality-related costs, e.g., costs of customer goodwill and future market share loss by the buyer and warranty-related costs shared by both the buyer and the supplier whenever a nonconforming item is sold to a customer. Therefore, both parties have an incentive to invest in quality-improvement efforts.  explores the roles of different parties in a supply chain in quality improvement.  show that the buyer's involvement can have a significant impact on the profits of both parties and of the supply chain as a whole, and he cannot cede the responsibility of quality improvement to the supplier in many cases.  also investigate how quality-improvement decisions interact with operational decisions such as the buyer's order quantity and the supplier's production lot size.
['Kaijie Zhu', 'Rachel Q. Zhang', 'Fugee Tsung']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Pushing Quality Improvement Along Supply Chains
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