Entropy theory based analysis of supply chain coordination efficiency

Author

Xu, Qingqing ; MIAO, Lixin ; Cui, Tengyue

Author_Institution

Res. Center for Modern Logistics, Tsinghua Univ., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Supply chain coordination is a hot topic in related research field recently. The Supply Chain Coordinative Structure (SCCS) that exactly represents which company acts as the coordinator in the network, could fundamentally affect the coordination efficiency. The paper constructs structure entropy models for three typical SCCSs (manufacturer-coordinator, retailer-coordinator and third-party-coordinator), and analyzes the impact of parameters to the coordination efficiency. Finally, the concept of level of order degree (LOD) is raised to evaluate the balance of informational timeliness and informational quality in certain SCCS, and a numerical example is analyzed.

Keywords

entropy; supply chain management; coordination efficiency; entropy theory; informational quality; level of order degree; supply chain coordinative structure; Analytical models; Biological system modeling; Educational institutions; Entropy; Supply chains; Uncertainty; coordination efficiency; entropy theory; supply chain coordinative structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supply Chain Management and Information Systems (SCMIS), 2010 8th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-962-367-696-0

Type

conf

Filename

5681689