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Information Sharing in Supply Chains: a Literature Review and Research Agenda

Information Sharing in Supply Chains: a Literature Review and Research Agenda. Imam Baihaqi Nicholas Beaumont. Introduction. Supply chain management (SCM): Coordination and collaboration amongst members in a supply chains

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Information Sharing in Supply Chains: a Literature Review and Research Agenda

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  1. Information Sharing in Supply Chains: a Literature Review and Research Agenda Imam Baihaqi Nicholas Beaumont

  2. Introduction • Supply chain management (SCM): • Coordination and collaboration amongst members in a supply chains • Information sharing is one way to mitigate the bullwhip effect (Lee et al, 1997) • Advances in Information Technology

  3. With whom should information be shared? • Highly related with supply chain structure, whit whom should an organization integrate?

  4. With whom should information be shared? (cont.) • Number of sharing partners depends on several factors such as product characteristics, partners condition • The literature only show the symmetric information sharing (same level and mechanism of information sharing for each echelon) that could be highly differ in practice • Still leave a question of with whom should information be shared

  5. What information should be shared? • Mostly sharing on demand, sales data, and forecasts • The value of information sharing depend on some circumstances such as lead time, production capacity, etc

  6. Classification of production information (Huang, Lau et al. 2003)

  7. How the benefits should be distributed?

  8. How the benefits should be distributed? (cont …) • Different parties obtain different benefits from information sharing • More research on how to distribute the benefits amongst partners is highly valuable

  9. The implication for organizations • Simply exchanging information will not provide better result (Kulp et al, 2004) • How to realize the potential benefits of information sharing

  10. Conclusion • The value of information sharing varies amongst parties in supply chain • Each type of information provide different benefits to supply chain • The benefits is affected by several factors such as demand variances, production capacity, etc. • Research agenda: • With whom should information be shared? • What information should be shared? • How the benefits should be distributed? • What are the implication for organizations?

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