Abstract
With the growing intensity of cooperation, the partners in the manufacturing supply chain (SC) raise stricter requirements for information sharing (IS) within the SC, which has been an effective capability to improve the performance of manufacturing SC. To reveal the influence of IS on SC performance, this paper firstly carries out a theoretical analysis on the influencing factors of IS, SC integration and SC performance, and builds a theoretical model of the IS’s impacting on SC performance. Next, valid index data were obtained by investigating typical manufacturing enterprises in Yangtze River Delta region of China. Then, according to the dynamics system flow of IS influence on SC performance, the proposed theoretical model would be modeled from system dynamics and simulated by Vensim PLE software. The results show that IS among manufacturing SC nodes enhances the SC performance via SC integration; when SC integration is suitable for IS, SC performance will be improved as long as the IS amount is greater than zero; however, excessive IS would reduce the quality and weaken the amount of IS; overall, the degree of IS and SC integration are the key to better SC performance. This implies that how to improve IS among SC partners is a very important thing in manufacturing SC management. And, it also enlightens that enterprise managers should pay attention to establish a high-level trust relationship with SC partners, achieve high-quality IS with a wider range, and then promote the SC system more integrated to improve its operational performance.
Highlights
With the advancement of information technology (IT), network communication, and manufacturing technology, integration and competition are two defining trends of the global market. e fierce competition transforms the seller market into a buyer market and promotes the diversification of user needs
According to the normal relations in manufacturing supply chain (SC), this paper considers the information sharing (IS) in SC as the information flows about human, material, financial, knowledge, and management between SC partners, supported by IT
Zhang and Chen [48] found that IS with uncertain demand did not increase the total revenue, but led to the reduction of the total revenue. en, what are the rules of impact of IS on SC performance? To explore this issue in depth, we will carry out follow-up studies based on the hypothesis of positive relationship between the two dimensions
Summary
With the advancement of information technology (IT), network communication, and manufacturing technology, integration and competition are two defining trends of the global market. e fierce competition transforms the seller market into a buyer market and promotes the diversification of user needs. The supply chain (SC) based on diverse cooperation relations becomes an effective mode of manufacturing management. E rise of SC management mode can help enterprises strengthen information communication with the nodes in the chain to establish a close partnership, so as to quickly optimize the allocation of resources and realize the purpose of highquality and low-cost supply and demand services for meeting the diverse needs of customers. Under the industrial revolution of “German Industry 4.0” and “Made in China 2025,” enhancing the communication and information sharing ability of SC system has become an effective means to improve the efficiency of manufacturing SC. E higher the degree of IS in SC, the higher the level of cooperation in SC, the higher the demand satisfaction rate, the lower the total cost of SC, and the higher the supply chain operation performance will be [6]. A dynamic model was adopted to simulate the relationship between IS and SC performance. e research results guide enterprises to improve the SC performance by streamlining its relationship with IS
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