A Game Theory Approach for Supply Chain Coordination Model with Incentive Mechanisms of Discount and Delay in Payments

Table 13

Sensitivity analysis on the number of suppliers with other parameters remain the same.

Row	Number of suppliers (s)	Total profit of the chain (in monetary units)
		Coordinated model	Centralized model	Decentralized model
1	6	1828036.11	1455246.112	854421.12
2	8	3172376.195	2504619.771	968626.34
3	10	3725926.165	2891553.27	1120113.28
4	12	4889133.145	3105179.553	1332077.45
Main model	4	1325962.21	1127169.225	560935.05