The Impact of Information Sharing on the Performance of Different-Echelon Supply Chain

Author

Luo Hanyang ; Ji Wenli

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Grad. Sch., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Shenzhen

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper quantifies and compares the impact of information sharing (IS) on the performance of different-echelon (namely two-echelon, three-echelon and four-echelon) supply chain with a simulation approach. The performance indexes include Fulfill Rate (FR), Backorder Cost (BC), Inventory Cost (IC) and Profit (PF). The results show that IS has a significantly negative impact on supply chain performance indexes FR and BC, and that with the increase of the echelon of supply chain, the negative effect becomes more and more serious. However, the value of IS in decreasing total IC and increasing PF is also great.

Keywords

inventory management; performance index; profitability; supply chains; backorder cost; different-echelon supply chain; fulfill rate; information sharing; inventory cost; profit; supply chain performance indexes; Costs; Discrete event simulation; Educational institutions; Integrated circuit modeling; Paper technology; Performance analysis; Silver; Software packages; Supply chain management; Supply chains;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

E-Business and Information System Security, 2009. EBISS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2909-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2910-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EBISS.2009.5138117

Filename

5138117