“…to evaluate the marginal benefits of different strategies of information, as for operational information on orders and demand (Kelepouris et al, 2008) or for decentralized, centralized and separated policies (Sohn & Lim, 2008); to prove the reduction of inventory costs that arises from the combination of information sharing with the right ordering policy (Lee, So, & Tang, 2000;Kelepouris et al, 2008;Liao & Chang, 2010), also contributing to lead time reduction (Agrawal et al, 2009); to determine the possibility of improving forecasting performance through information sharing and reducing the demand uncertainty (Cachon & Fisher, 2000;Trapero, Kourentzes, & Fildes, 2012); to test results from the introduction of centralized coordination policies that only information sharing can enable, as for Vendor Managed Inventory Zhang, Zhang, & Guo, 2008).…”