Title :
The Value of Downstream Information Sharing on Upstream Supply Chain
Author :
Ying Tian ; Xiaolin Pan
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Chongqing Normal Univ., Chongqing
Abstract :
In this paper, we consider a make-to-order supply chain consisting of a single upstream (one manufacture) and downstream (n retailers) which are engaged in Curnot competition and have some private information of demand. Under our assumption, we investigated the value of sharing the demand information of downstream on upstream supply chain. The results showed upstream (the manufacturer) always can get a non-negative value from information sharing, and this value will be increased by share information from more retailers. But the profits of the retailers always worse off by disclosing their demand information to the manufacturer.
Keywords :
information use; retail data processing; supply chain management; Curnot competition; demand information; downstream information sharing; make-to-order supply chain; upstream supply chain; Computer science; Costs; Demand forecasting; Educational institutions; Information analysis; Mathematics; Pulp manufacturing; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2107-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2108-4
DOI :
10.1109/WiCom.2008.1469
