DECENTRALIZED SUPPLY CHAIN

This paper presents a new decentralized/ distributed supply chain planning model. A supply chain is called decentralized when meaningful opinions are made in different companies trying to optimize their own objectives. Supply chain planning is the creation of medium- term master plans for the entire supply chain. A centralized approach to supply chain planning is generally supported, but it may not be accepted or affect system-wide efficacy due to the distinction between the provocations of the companies involved in the supply chain and overall supply chain objects. Thus, opinions about supply chain planning are generally coordinated on a decentralized basis. A collaboration medium is designed to partake information between the retailer model and the manufacturer model called centralized planning. This study examines the consequences and constraints of decentralized and centrally planned supply chains, furnishing the foundation for introducing a general, abstract approach to distributed supply chain planning. The main benefactions of this paper are epitomized as follows (1) presenting a decentralized (distributed) approach in order to address the product and distribution problem in supply chain including manufacturer and retailers and (2) proposing a collaboration medium in order to handle problems related to product and distribution in a two-stratum supply chain network through a decentralized approach.