Forming an Information Sharing Mechanism for Convergent Assembly Supply Chains

Implementing information sharing can help supply chain to deal with uncertainty, which lies behind interactions between supply chain participants. The research results suggested that there are three categories must be considered in implementing information sharing in convergent assembly supply chain. The first mandate is associated with planning the mechanism of interorganizational coordination between factory and channel for coping with demand variation, which includes the channel provides guiding services to the customer as to the selection of equipment combination and the factory transfer the information regarding the assembly of detailed equipment to the channel. The second in line is related to planning inter-organizational coordination between factory and supplier for managing material supply, which includes supplier involvement in new product development and delivery method. The third is the implementation of information sharing based on the mechanism of inter-organizational coordination between supply chain participants. Resolving issues in these three categories are helpful in the execution of SCM, contributing to integrating of supply chain resources and eventually improving the overall supply chain performance.