This study investigates how information errors affect supply chain performance when a retailer and a supplier share the end-customer demand information. An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, often used to share information in a supply chain, is not perfect and often contains erroneous...

For a decentralized supply chain with one supplier and two retailers that face uniformly distributed end-customer demands, a scheduled balanced ordering policy (SBOP) is one in which the two retailers take turns to order freely in one period of a two-period cycle, and receive a fixed shipment in...