Literature Review on Supply Chain Management

Since the concept of supply chain is first put forward in the late 1980's,supply chain issues are studied from many perspectives.With the change of supply chain management practice and the development of supply chain management theory,there arise many new research perspectives and questions in the field of supply chain management.In the research,we mainly select important literature of supply chain management from international academic periodical,and make a review and discussion from the perspective of supply chain mechanism design,e-supply chain,information sharing in supply chain,optimization and model design of supply chain.Through analysis we point out the important research point in the field of supply chain,for example,apphcation of information technology in supply chain management and contract design in supply chain will still be the future research focus.The issues of Green supply chain management,knowledge management in supply chain,cost and performance measurement in supply chain will attract more emphasis,and will be the new important research focus in the field of supply chain management.