Research on Information Sharing in Supply Chain

Information sharing is the critical factor to implement the total performance of supply chain. Information asymmetry in supply chain not only reduces the whole reaction speed, but increases cost. In this paper, some major types of sharing information in supply chain are discussed. Secondly, analyze the impact on obstacles to share information, including subjective and objective factors such as information disclosure risk, uneven distributed benefits, information-sharing cost, and structure instability, lack of talented person and lack of flexible hardware support. Finally, some comprehensive countermeasures are proposed such as leading incentive mechanism, enforcing information security, and building up a suitable information platform, selecting node enterprises carefully and integrating into big-data era.