Procedure Modeling and Analyzing of Supply Chain Collaborative Decision Mode

Information sharing and collaborative decision are important strategies for supply chain partners to realize their common profit. In order to contrast the decision process and decision effect of these strategies, information sharing mode, collaborative forecasting mode and collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment mode, etc., several kinds of supply chain collaborative decision modes were analyzed and simulated employing procedure modeling technique. They were classified according to the collaborative degree. The fine differences in their information sharing and collaborative decision process of different supply chain collaborative decision modes were indicated and the influence to specific decision variables was quantified then. Finally, simulation experiment results illuminated decision effect of these supply chain collaborative decision modes. The ordering stability and the service level increase with the collaborative degree, and the dissatisfaction of the service level is from imprecise forecasting, or inconsistent ordering, or both