A Framework for Analyzing and Enhancing Collaboration in Supply Chain through Dynamic Analysis

For all members within a supply chain, effectively managing dependencies is very important. Indeed, as market pressures dictate that today's commercial supply chains provide rapid and efficient supply, the need to collaborate with all members within the supply chain is becoming increasingly critical. As such, there is an emerging need for organizations to understand, formalize, and manage the resulting interdependencies. This paper develops and illustrates a Cause- Effect-based, systematic process for analysing and selecting collaboration policies in a supply chain. These collaboration policies can enhance performance of supply chain members and the dynamic analysis presented in this paper can help to analyze dynamic behavior of these policies in a supply chain.