Information sharing

Information barriers abound both within any one company and along the supply chain. There are a variety of causes ranging from incompatible systems to no systems at all. We addressed systems and information management from a more technical viewpoint in Chapters 21 through 23. The lack of 

In Chapter 28, we describe approaches that use technology to reduce costs through better information sharing. The technology needed for that sharing, for the purpose of this section, is secondary. In fact, much of the software and hardware needed may be in place already. 

In a typical supply chain, decisions at each stage are based on information received from its immediate suppliers and customers (decentralized information). Thus, each stage makes locally optimal decisions. In such a system, customer order information can become distorted, becoming lumpy as it moves upstream. This is also known as the BuUwhip effect. As mentioned earlier, Lee et al. (1997) mathematically established the bullwhip effect in a decentralized supply chain with no information sharing. 

Li and Shaw (2001) established that compared with inventory sharing, demand sharing incurs lower inventory cost when the variability of the end demand is high. However, compared with no information sharing , sharing of inventory and shipment information improve fill rate and decrease inventory. 

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One of the six elements of Responsible Care is the Codes of Management Practice, and one of the codes is the Process Safety Code of Management Practices (34). This code emphasi2es management commitment and accountabiUty, information sharing, and community relations, but also includes 11 of the 14 specific elements of the legislated process safety management standards developed later. 

Was information shared freely between ABC Company and the toller ... 

Recycling Technical Assistance Partnership National Network A national information-sharing resource designed to help businesses and manufacturers increase their use of recovered materials. 

We also held an annual overnight event, partly as information sharing and partly to recognize the Local Co-ordinators. The time given by the Co-ordinators was substantial they estimated 2 days a week on average, and many had no exemption from other duties while doing this. 

Improvement Item Better communication between response personnel would have resulted in pertinent information sharing. Unified CP was in place when EPA arrived. Clear lines of authority had not been established, but the right things were occurring, although maybe not as smoothly as they could have. 

Information related to broader industry issues, newly recognized hazards, and lessons learned from near misses and actual incidents can also be shared with customers and users as part of product stewardship. Trade, professional, and other cooperative organizations such as universities and local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) can be effective vehicles for information sharing, in addition to individual company initiatives. 

The SOCMA process safety committee informally shares information on incidents at member facilities, but it does not offer a formal incident reporting mechanism such as the ACC PSCMS. 

The Chemical Transportation Emergency Center (CHEMTREC ) created the Chemical Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center (CHEM-ISAC). The CHEM-ISAC serves three purposes ... 

This entrepreneurial culture is further evidenced by an open door policy, transparency, information-sharing within and across business units, and by a best-practices mentality. All of this leads to the industry s best retention rates of 82% for sales people and drivers, which are the key customer-facing positions. At the officer level, retention rates exceed 99% with an average tenure greater than twenty years. 

The American Chemistry Council recognizes this area in Management Practice 5, Information Sharing, as an integral part of the code of Responsible Care Process Safety Code of Management Practices. 

Increase awareness and information sharing between disciplines ... 

All over the world, regional cooperation is essential. In 2007, UNODC looks forward to the opening of regional counter-narcotic information-sharing centres in Central Asia and the Gulf. The time is ripe to consider the creation of a similar mechanism to facilitate drug-related intelligence cooperation in South East Asia. 

Chen F (2003) Information Sharing and Supply Chain Coordination. In de Kok AG, Graves SC (eds) Supply Chain Management Design, Coordination and Operation. Elsevier, Amsterdam et al., pp 341-421... 

Communication and ethical challenges Personal and complex biomonitoring data require careful planning, informed consent, information sharing, and evaluation to continue to move science of biomonitoring forward... 

Real-time information sharing (forecasts, production and transportation planning)... 

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