MODELING THE IMPACT OF PARTIAL INFORMATION SHARING IN A THREE-ECHELON SUPPLY CHAIN

Zhuping Liu (), Qiuhong Zhao (), Shouyang Wang () and Jianming Shi ()
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Zhuping Liu: School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P. R. China
Qiuhong Zhao: School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, P. R. China
Shouyang Wang: Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
Jianming Shi: School of Management, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 1628601, Japan

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR), 2013, vol. 30, issue 05, 1-23

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of partial information sharing in a three-echelon supply chain. Partial information sharing means that information sharing occurs only between the distributor and the retailer, but not between the distributor and the manufacturer. This paper contributes to the literature by summarizing the circumstances in which information sharing between the retailer and the distributor benefits the manufacturer. In addition, our study points out that such information sharing does not always bring benefits to the manufacturer and that in some cases the information sharing may harm the manufacturer. We explain the reasons why this can happen and give managerial intuition for our results. Using numerical analysis, we illustrate the impact of partial information sharing on the agents in the supply chain with the change of the autoregressive coefficient in the demand process.

Keywords: Information sharing; partial information sharing; supply chain; inventory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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