| dc.description.abstract | Information sharing is vital to the coordination among parties in a supply chain.
Information sharing can improve supply chain efficiency by minimizing inventory and
balancing output. This thesis investigates the values of demand and inventory information
sharing in a three-echelon supply chain system (retailer - distributor - manufacturer), and
how the profitability of each member in the sharing information strategy. The centralized
system and the decentralized system were performed. The Salop model was developed to
show the impacts of the ordering quantity and pricing strategy in the three-echelon supply
chain. We used a numerical study to demonstrate the proposed models and conduct
sensitivity analysis on some of the key parameters. The result shows that the sharing
information settings, especially the distributor-manufacturer system, bring the benefít to
the whole supply chain. | en_US |
