Model of Sharing Information in Supply Chain Network based on Metcalfe's Law

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10.2991/jiaet-18.2018.21How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Supply chain network; Metcalfe's Law; utility value; sharing information

Abstract

Aimed at the problem in measuring the utility value of supply chain network in information sharing, this paper proposed a utility value model of supply chain network based on different information sharing strategies. Through the analysis of the research status of sharing information in supply chain at present stage, this paper discusses the feasibility of applying Metcalfe's law to measure the utility value of network which was generated by information sharing in the supply chain network. In a supply chain network composed of retailers and multiple vendors as the research object, it also explained respectively the method for measuring the utility value of supply chain network when the sharing arise between “supplier-retailer” and “supplier-supplier-retailer” and calculated the utility value of network under the different information sharing strategies of the supply chain network with the number of suppliers within 30. This model further validated that the utility value of supply chain network is directly proportional to the number of enterprises nodes in a network and the full information sharing of supply chain network is the most desirable strategy to improve the efficiency of supply chain network.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xin Xiong
AU  - Mingjing Guo
AU  - Tiantian Yang
PY  - 2018/03
DA  - 2018/03
TI  - Model of Sharing Information in Supply Chain Network based on Metcalfe's Law
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 Joint International Advanced Engineering and Technology Research Conference (JIAET 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 122
EP  - 126
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jiaet-18.2018.21
DO  - 10.2991/jiaet-18.2018.21
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