Some Approaches for Sharing Logistics Information from Manufacturing Enterprises with Downstream Supply Chain Partners

Abstract

Manufacturing enterprises sometimes cannot accept orders from corporate customers because their manufacturing capacity is busy. To solve this problem, this article proposes some approaches for information sharing with downstream partners of supply chains. The main approach is sending an XML file with free capacity by days from a manufacturing enterprise to its corporate customers. In this case corporate customers who send orders to the manufacturer are sure that their orders will be accepted and carried out. The practical implication of the proposed method is for manufacturing enterprises who have a lot of orders and sometimes reject some of the orders due to the lack of free manufacturing capacity.