Collaboration Research On Material And Information Decoupling Positions Based On Time Competition

With the competitive, international and dynamic environment, customer are becoming demanding greater service in the terms of reliability and response time. Speed of response to customer demand is recognized as a key attribute to business and supply chain success especially in today's volatile and competitive market environment. However, every business will refer to many kinds of information, information technology and operations have been in every enterprise and supply chain. Accordingly, alignment research on information and material pipelines based on time competition is very important to improve the logistics agility, realize supply chains time strategy.Traditional modes refer to only one pipeline in the supply chains, and also didn't take time into account. The research described in this paper is built on work of analyzing the impact of the information and material decoupling point positions within a supply chain on the supply chain performance and logistics agility. The paper puts forward an agile logistics mode to solve the shortage of the traditional information flow modes in TBC.The agile logistics mode solves the collaboration of information and material pipelines, positioning the information and material decoupling points rightly, and integrating the three kinds of information flow in logistics operation system. However, the agile logistics mode implements a holistic time compression strategy including both production and order-fulfillment pipeline lead-time reduction to improve the speed of response to the end user demand and the whole supply chain competitive advantage.