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

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.1469

Filename

4679377