Knowledge and information sharing Sample Clauses

Knowledge and information sharing. As previously described, supply chain consists of many participants. Companies must purchase and send out goods or services. Being part of supply chain means companies are forced to exchange information, starting from order information all the way to deliv- ery information to customer. Also, information between the departments inside the company needs to move back and forth. Usually company is part of many different sup- ply chains and it must decide which kind of information and knowledge is necessary or useful to share with suppliers and what information company desires from its customers in supply chain. Information can be just changing opinions in phone conversations or detailed information, for example, about product structures. Xxxxx (2003) writes that Surviving and competing in today’s volatile global economy and uncertain environment leads organizations for a strong need to create, share and dis- seminate updated and appropriate information. And Xxxxx (2005) states that a supply chain stays connected by flows of information, finance and material by the suppliers, producers, retailers, distributors and customers. In the past information sharing was mainly linked to material flows. The necessary information of material deliveries or de- lays were exchanged. Today, companies focus more widely on information sharing and they have made plans and instructions to manage information exchange. For example, supplier can share information about internal quality measurements with predefined software. There are many incentives on flowless information sharing which might em- brace fixed prices, delayed orders penalty and reducing the lead times. In fact, a lot of companies have provided a great focus to enhance the integration and collaborative ef- forts between different supply chain members to increase visibility across businesses (Tan 2016). It is understandable that information sharing has increased in the past three decades because of rapidly increased digitalization. Almost every company has Enterprise Re- source Planning software (ERP) in use. ERP software makes it possible to share infor- mation online to suppliers and shared information can be predefined. Also, software’s to protect information has been developed, like Xxxxxxxxxx (2011) writes, some tech- nologies have been developed to protect data such as the digital watermarking technol- ogy which is important for hiding data and digital copyrights protection. These software’s have made it easier for...
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