A Contemporary Approach to Plan Independent Logistics Actors

Abstract

Companies are dependent on the resources and information of other members of the supply chains. To manage their resources, companies use coordination mechanisms. Despite the inter-dependency between logistics actors, they are independent units with conflicting objectives. These two characteristics can increase the complexity of planning in logistics networks. According to the literature of supply chain management, some mechanisms largely use the information shared by members to achieve an optimal solution and some others are based on minimum level of information sharing. This chapter addresses the coordination problem in a logistics networks with more than two partners, while the information is in a private element that is not exchanged with other partners.

Supply Chain Coordination: A Review

“…It is observed that with the support of a large number of documents, scholars have done a great deal of work on the applicability of the contract. The details from very simple models to very complex models are different, and coordination among multiple actors at different levels of the supply chain can be achieved through contract execution ( [42], [43]). The analysis of the contract implementation between supply chain members should pay more and more attention in theory and practice.…”