Research On Information Sharing Of The Supply Chain With A Dominant Retailer

With the progress of the technology and development of the market economy,retailers which are closed to customers in supply chain,play a more important role of the customer market. The traditional manufacturer-leading supply chain is gradually converted to retailer-leading supply chain. As a new form, the retailer-leading supply chain is more and more concerned. Hence, it is very important to study and analyse the retailer-leading supply chain.In the thesis, the information sharing of retailer-leading supply chain is studied based on related theoretical research and characters of the retailer-leading supply chain. Firstly, the author gives some concepts of the retailer-leading supply chain, and then introduce structure and characters of the retailer-leading supply chain. Secondly, mathematical model of value of information sharing of retailer-leading supply chain is established, and the cost of information sharing is considered in the model. The difference between information sharing and without information sharing is analysed, and the critical value and some results are obtained. Thirdly, the cost of adding value is discussed in the information sharing of retailer-leading supply chain, some new results are given , and a system to implement the information sharing of retailer-leading supply chain is designed. Finally, the example of a dominant retailer is provided to discuss the application of this system.