Abstract

One of the pillars in establishing coordination is information sharing. Information sharing could be defined as the extent to which a company communicates a range of information with its supply chain partners. The purpose of this study was providing a model for evaluation of the effect of information sharing on the supply chain performance - case study: Ahvaz Pipe Mills Co. In the present study, by reviewing the company's past history and documents and using the opinions of the experts, the data with uncertainty were specified. Then the required numerical data in the company were collected to provide the context required for simulation. After that, simulation was done in MATLAB software and finally, the results of the simulation were extracted and analyzed. The results indicated that the two goals of increasing efficiency and reducing costs led to presentation of many studies and research projects, ending in ongoing development of supply chain systems. Here, one of the solutions able to find a special place in research of supply chain is information sharing.