Paper Info
Title
Information Sharing Assessment In Supply Chain: Hierarchical Fuzzy Rule-Based System
Abstract
As one of three prominent flows (material, money, information) in a supply chain, the information flow plays a key role in supply chain performance and also in reaching high degrees of integrity and cooperation between supply chain members. Regarding the vagueness and multi-dimensional nature of information sharing, evaluating the information sharing level in supply chain is a complex problem. This paper aims to develop a new rule-based inference system to evaluate the level of information sharing in a supply chain. To this end, first, the influencing parameters are obtained from the literature and are screened and refined by the experts, using Lexicography method. Then, they are categorised into a multi-level hierarchical structure. Finally, a hierarchical inference system, which consists of a set of fuzzy rule bases, is constructed to infer the information sharing degree. The use of fuzzy rule bases is due to the lack of explicit functions between the influencing factors as well as ambiguity of these parameters. Also, in this research, the input parameters measurement process is defined and some relevant indices are designed. The developed assessment system is a four-leveled hierarchical inference system, built of six fuzzy rule bases. The inference system has eight input parameters, the values of which are calculated utilising six designed indices and two quick questionnaires. Eventually, the developed inference system and the measuring method are implemented in a real case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1142/S0219649218500028
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Information sharing assessment, supply chain, fuzzy inference system, hierarchical structure
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0219-6492
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farnoush Farajpour100.68
Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard2193.04
A. Yousefli3151.36
Mohammad Reza Taghva491.12