Study On Value In Information Sharing Of Supply Chain

In developed net new economy era, supply chain management make a rapid progress as a new administration mode. It becomes main stratagem in improving benefit and elevating competition of enterprises. There are material flow , information flow and capital flow in supply chain. The flow of material is the best distinct and straightforward one. Some people think supply chain management is the prolongation and extension of logistic management. But in information society, the value of information endows with a new meaning and status to supply chain. In supply chain, the flow of material and capital closely surrounds information flow. Through the information guide, the flow of material and capital could work more fluent and get best efficiency, lowest cost.From the point of value, the supply chain is one value chain. In the days which marketable subdivision of production makes the expert use of asset more and more stronger, the portrait unite among enterprises and supply chain management are more and more impendency to save bargaining cost. Form the point of core enterprise, in the total supply chain management, the participators hold private information, but the core enterprise stays in inferior position of information. The relationship between core enterprise and participators is one kind of principal-agent connection. In the first, the thesis classes the information that could be shared in supply chain, stock information, demand information, sell forecast information, produce/deliver plan information and others. Then describes the flow of information in supply chain, establishes the decentralized, centralized and colligated control model of information flow. Through the analysis of indetermination, information asymmetry, bull-effect and the balance of collision target in supply chain, explains the value of information in supply chain. In the second, information sharing is very valuable and important to supply chain management. The paper compares the cost between traditional supply chain and information sharing supply chain. Gets the result that information sharing could reduce the total cost of supply chain. To vendor and manufacturer, through comparing the before and after information sharing in distribute model of order for goods, concludes the information sharing let the distribution of order for goods excellent. To shopkeeper and manufacturer, the information sharing could make both of them get excess profit. In the third, the dissertation discusses the resistances of information sharing and elicits the inspirit mechanism of information sharing among the supply chain enterprises. The resistances includes the change of traditional supply-demand relationship, the augment cost of enterprises' information sharing, the possible leaking of the business secret through information sharing, the lower argy-bargy ability among the supply chain enterprises, the hard inspect of information sharing activity and the possible separation of the dynamic supply chain alliance. In the end, takes the manufacturer as the core enterprise, advances the inspirit strategy to up-travel vendor and down-travel shopkeeper.