The architecture of an active database management system
SIGMOD '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Simulation with Arena
A technical framework for sense-and-respond business management
IBM Systems Journal
Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains
Journal of Management Information Systems
Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation
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As supply chains evolve beyond the confines of individual organizations, information sharing has become the Holy Grail in supply chain technology. Although the value of information sharing is well recognized, there is little research on how to use it to configure supply chains. This paper proposes a parameterized model to capture information sharing in a supply chain. By changing the parameters of this model, we actually adjust information sharing and create supply chain configurations. Configurations are the means of responding to events or changes in supply chains in a timely manner. A complete example is used to demonstrate this methodology. We also perform simulation experiments to compare configurations and to understand the effect of information sharing on supply chain performance. Thus, we show how to achieve supply chain configurability by leveraging information sharing.