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Publication agreement

May 25th, 2009

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  May 25th, 2009

Information sharing is a key prerequisite for supply chain collaboration. Most of the researchers in the area focus on establishing the information sharing benefits across supply chain. In spite of knowing its benefits most of the companies are reluctant practicing it. This may at least be due to the following challenge - information required for planning and scheduling is available in distributed applications and is owned by different partners in the supply chain. Decision makers need to sign in different applications and go to different web sites to manually collection information and make sense out of it. We found lack of research about information architecture for sharing information from distributed sources across the supply chain. As a result of this the purpose of this thesis has been to propose a design for information architecture for information exchange in supply chains.