Coordination model for Supply Chain Management (SCM): an example in the application of the production planning process

The coordination of companies in the supply chain (SC) is a pillar of achieving better overall performance. Although often studied, research does not usually take into account the influence of the relationships amongst companies in the supply chain. Marcotte et al. [1] propose a collaborative coordination model for the SCM. They suggest the taxonomy of collaborative situations which influence information processing all along the SC. They also propose reference models for coordination based on this taxonomy. In this paper, we illustrate information processing in the planning process in a supply chain, according to different collaborative situations and to the corresponding reference models. The objective of this paper is to illustrate by way of examples the benefit of each company to process information as it is proposed in the collaborative coordination model.