A Review of Collaboration and Secure Information-Sharing for Supply Chain Management

Over the last decade, collaboration and secure information-sharing (SIS) have been studied in the context of supply chain management (SCM) to determine their influence on improving a business’s performance and profitability. Collaboration refers to the firms working together to accomplish a particular objective, whereas SIS is a vital technology which permits the firms and the enablers of a supply chain to be integrated. In this paper, these aspects and their impacts on SCM are reviewed. A conceptual model with a set of hypotheses for measuring the effects of collaboration and information-sharing on SCs, which demonstrate their effective roles in SCM, is proposed.