Abstract—With the increasing variability of the demand and the growing intensity of the competition, it became indispensable for companies to make sure to meet their customers’ needs. In this context, the coordination of operations plays an important role to satisfy not only the customers but also all partners of a supply chain. The coordination can be considered as one of the main elements of supply chain management. In order to achieve the objective of coordination, it is possible for a company to collaborate with their partners, or even competitors. This paper first reviews the existing methods to achieve coordination in decentralized systems, with the stochastic information, to satisfy variable demand, and then classifies these solutions into a framework.

Index Terms—stochastic demand, supply chain management, collaboration, coordination, operations planning

Cite: Rodrigue Cauchois, Atour Taghipour, Daeseok Kang, Nesrine Zoghlami, and Mourad Abed, "Advanced Solutions for a Supply Chain with Stochastic Information" Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 9-13, January 2017. doi: 10.18178/joams.5.1.9-13