Information Sharing of Energy Sources Supply Chain

Energy sources supply chain is a new research concern in supply chain management. Supply chain coordination leads to increased information flow, reduced uncertainty, which has become a critical success factor for energy sources supply chain management. We study the energy sources supply chain consisting of one energy sources vendor (SV) and one energy sources integration provider (SIP). We develop information sharing coordination of energy sources supply chain between the SV and the SIP. We try to explore the information sharing coordination in energy sources supply chain which is classified into different information flows. The findings reinforce the importance of information sharing coordination and performance to companies. As a last note, future research direction is pointed out. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Harbin University of Science and Technology