关键词: 供应链管理, 信息共享程度, 库存成本降低, 订货点库存策略, 服装供应链

Abstract: The inventory level of Chinese apparel industry has deteriorated a lot in recent years, and high inventory has been the bottleneck of the development of apparel companies. Information sharing is recognized as one of the effective methods to resolve this problem. However, there lacks quantitative studies addressing information sharing in Chinese apparel supply chain. Most of the existing literature to investigate information sharing focus on the impacts of sharing information or not, rather than how the sharing degree affects supply chain performance. This paper builds quantitative model to analyze three scenarios in apparel industry: (1)sharing demand statistics, (2)sharing timely demand information, (3)sharing demand and market information. This paper shows that sharing timely demand information can reduce supplier's inventory level and cost. Furthermore, sharing market information on top of demand information can enhance the supply chain flexibility and the ability of dealing market uncertainty. This paper may shed some new light on managing high inventory level of Chinese apparel supply chain, and provide some managerial insights on the informationization and brand development for the practitioners.

Key words: supply chain management, information sharing degree, inventory cost reduction, order-up-to policy, apparel supply chain