Supply chain cooperation modeling: trends and gaps

Abstract

The aim of this work is firstly to provide a comprehensive overview of the current trends in supply chain cooperation modeling and secondly to highlight the fruitful research avenues in this field based on a systematic literature review. As a result, it was found that in the previous years the research work on supply chain management has primarily focused on the study of materials and information flows and very little work has been done on the study of upstream and downstream flows of money. It is shown, that the evolution of the research in the field of supply chain cooperation modeling has evolved from centralized cooperative models through decentralized coordination models to collaborative models. Moreover, the unit of modeling has become significantly more complex from unconnected supply chains to multi-echelone systems. From the authors' point of view, the further step ahead is development of models of collaborative supply chain networks, especially in the field of financial supply chain management.