Strategic Information Sharing in a Dynamic Supply Chain with a Carrier under Complex Uncertainty

What is it about?

Whether to use an information sharing mechanismis investigated in a dynamic supply chain, where onemanufacturer, one carrier,and one retailer are faced with uncertain yield, demand, and lead time during multiple periods.It is found that (i) it is rewarding for the upstream manufacturer to use a retailer’s shared information under uncertain yield or demand; (ii) however, information sharing (IS) strategy sometimes should be abandoned for othermembers and the whole supply chain; (iii) counterintuitively, the increase of transportation time uncertainty benefits the retailer.

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Why is it important?

We obtain meaningful management implications. For instance, it is rewarding for the upstream manufacturer to use the retailer’s shared information under uncertain yield or demand, whereas information sharing strategy may be abandoned for the whole supply chain and other channel members, and the retailer can obtain more benefits with the increase of transportation time uncertainty.