Research on the Symbiotic Model of Supply Chains Based on the Logistic Expansion Model for E-Commerce Platforms

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript presents an interesting model for symbiotic supply chain model for the E-commerce Platforms, even if the contribution is relevant some major issues should be solved before considering it.

Major comments

The model is not sufficiently clear, since formulas are presented just after the Hypothesis and no discussion/presentation of main variables and parameters are presented (i.e. it is not straightforward to understand what represents y1, y2, y3): thus I suggest presenting in more structured and clear way, with a proper notation the model

Numerical analysis seems completely insufficient to support the model implications for different situations, a proper sensitivity analysis should be included and results more clearly discussed.

Managerial implications of findings should be properly discussed in a specific section of the manuscript: at present some important implications are discussed in the conclusion but with sufficient clarity and reference to practical cases.

Minor comments

Parameters and units of measure for both axes in all figures 4-5-6-7 should be included and the numbers should be visible

MATLAB is wrongly written in the conclusions

The English should be significantly improved, especially the abstract, introduction and conclusive sections should be proofread since they appear fragmented with several repetitions and are not sufficiently fluent.

Author Response

Dear Editor and Reviewer:

Thank you for your letter and for the comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Research on the Symbiotic Model of Supply Chains Based on Logistic Expansion Model for E-commerce Platforms” (No: Sustainability-2586238). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval.

We have made your suggestions and our replies into a word and uploaded it, please see the attachment.

Best regards,

Wei Zhang, Yangming Fan, Ye Yuan

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Please see the attached file for my comments.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

I have included some comments regarding the quality of English. Please see my comment file for that.

Author Response

Dear Editor and Reviewer:

Thank you for your letter and for the comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Research on the Symbiotic Model of Supply Chains Based on Logistic Expansion Model for E-commerce Platforms” (No: Sustainability-2586238). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval.

We have made your suggestions and our replies into a word and uploaded it, please see the attachment.

Best regards,
Wei Zhang, Yangming Fan, Ye Yuan

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors have successfully accomplished all previous comments raised

The English language is overall acceptable

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have addressed all my comments. Thanks.

It improved from the first draft.