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...

E-business in construction is not just about trading products on-line, as e-commerce was originally defined. It covers all aspects of relationships with clients, contractors, suppliers, and partners within the construction supply chain. It also includes procurement, intra-team collaboration, handling value added services like transportation, warehousing, infrastructure, and multiparty transacti...

Substantial literature has been devoted to supply chain coordination. The majority of this literature ignores competition between supply chains. Moreover, a significant part of this literature focuses on coordination that induce the supply chain members to follow strategies that produce the equilibria chosen by a vertically integrated supply chain. This paper investigates the equilibrium behavi...

Supply chain performance is highly influenced by the coordination level between its members, which needs information sharing. In this article we consider a three-echelon direct sell supply chain model and focus on the problem of coordinated decision-making between its members. Our contribution is a first approach that measures the impact of the degree of coordination between the members. Demand...

To increase profitability, farmers often decide to form strategic partnerships with other farmers, pooling their resources and outputs for greater efficiency and scale. These coordination decisions can have far-reaching and complex implications for overall food supply chain structural emergence, which in turn impacts system outcomes and long-term sustainability. In this paper, we describe an ag...

Supply chain management deals with the efficient coordination of enterprises along a value chain to provide goods and services to end users. While the operational and strategic aspects of supply chain management have been researched to some extent, one of the questions for enterprises is the management and controlling of supply chain operations on a tactical level. We discuss the activities on ...

We propose to develop a framework for agent-based electronic markets (e-markets) for project supply chain coordination, where subcontractors interact and transact with other subcontractors within supply-chain networks with the assistance of software agents. The e-markets for project supply chain coordination complements our agent-based project schedule coordination framework by applying the adv...

Supply chain management has been influenced greatly by e-business, so does coordination which is regarded as the core of supply chain management. The characteristics of supply chain management based on e-business are analyzed firstly, which describe that information transmission has been accelerated and the relation between enterprises has become not only competitive but also cooperative under ...

Decisions at different levels of the supply chain can no longer be considered independently, since they may influence profitability throughout the supply chain. This paper focuses on the interest of multi-agent paradigm for the collaborative coordination in global distribution supply chain. Multi-agent computational environments are suitable for a broad class of coordination and negotiation iss...