Blockchain-Based Supply Chain Information Sharing Mechanism

A Procurement-distribution Coordination Model in Humanitarian Supply Chain Using the Information-sharing Mechanism

The coordination problem of relief items’ distribution operations is essential in humanitarian relief chains. If the coordination is proper, it will improve the response phase to the crisis. In order to improve the coordination in humanitarian relief chains, distribution and warehousing operations of relief items were outsourced to the third-party logistics. In this paper, the procurement-distr...

Incentive mechanism based on cooperative advertising for cost information sharing in a supply chain with competing retailers

This paper proposes a new motivation for information sharing in a decentralized channel consisting of a single manufacturer and two competing retailers. The manufacturer provides a common product to the retailers at the same wholesale price. Both retailers add their own values to the product and distribute it to consumers. Factors such as retail prices, values added to the product, and local ad...

Information Sharing and Supply Chain Coordination¤

Can Supply Chain Flexibility Facilitate Information Sharing?

This paper attempts to provide an explanation for a long-standing observation in supply chain management: while our models typically show that simple contracts cannot induce credible forecast sharing between different parties within the supply chain, why do firms often use them in practice, and exchange information through unverifiable communication (“cheap talk”)? We address this question usin...

Sharing of Information in Supply Chain Management

The sharing of information helps as a mandatory approach to the strength of the company or organisation and allowing the integration of the supply chain. Nowadays it has become more credible with the improvement of information and communication for the sharing of information. Today, there is a lack of information sharing within companies, which ultimately leads to the lack of care of the coordi...