A review and analysis of researches on supply chain partnership

Market is undergoing the globalization that makes some enterprises associate with each other so as to enhance their competitive competency. The future competition among enterprises has already evolved into the competition among supply chains, and thus supply chain partnership appears. It's a complex process to manage the supply chain partnership and establish a long-term and steady strategic cooperative partnership. This paper summarizes almost one hundred current researches on supply chain relationship, and divides the management of supply chain partnership into four stages-demand analysis, collection of partner information, partner selection and partner tracking management. It analyzes the advances in research of the management of supply chain relationship, and further points out the insufficiencies in the current researches. Finally, it proposes some prospects on research direction of the management of supply chain partnership.