Incorporating social media observations and bounded rationality into fashion quick response supply chains in the big data era

In this paper, we study the fashion quick response program with social media observations, demand forecast updating, and a boundedly rational retailer. We analytically find that the likelihood of having good social media comments on the product plays a critical role in affecting the value of quick response, and its impact is mediated by the fashion retailer's prior attitude towards the market demand. We then demonstrate how a Pareto improving situation can be achieved under quick response, and uncover that manipulating social media comments can benefit the manufacturer under the surplus sharing contract, but not under the two-part tariff contract.