Supply chains are increasingly required to work with core competencies of a flexible system, enriched with decision knowledge sharing. By effectively exploiting flexibility in supply chain structures, better and improved performance can be achieved. Similarly, by judiciously employing decision flexibility and the associated dynamic control amongst autonomous supply chain nodes, very many improvements are possible. Supply chains can have multiple-autonomous players with varying technical work ethics (affects knowledge mindsets), managerial background (affects decision knowledge) and SCM exposures (affects knowledge sharing attitudes). The key to great success lies in knowing which decision has more impact on the overall performance and this can be achieved by using effective and appropriate knowledge sharing. In this context, Knowledge Management (KM) can be used as an effective tool to achieve decision knowledge sharing (DKS), leading to improved SCM competence. Thus, there is a need to develop demo models which can encourage chain managers towards greater collaborative-knowledge sharing in the supply chains. This paper, thus presents a study on the role of different decision knowledge sharing options (i.e. no DKS, partial DKS and full DKS) with varying supply chain flexibility ( i.e. no flexibility, partial flexibility and full flexibility) based on a dynamic control processes. A simulation model is herewith developed for a detailed study. The key results are highlighted along with their industry implications in the KM context.
Supply Chains (SCs), Flexibility, Decision Knowledge Sharing (DKS), Knowledge Management (KM), Routing Flexibility.
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