Influence of Information Sharing, Partnership, and Collaboration on Supply Chain Performance

Study on Apples Agroindustry

Abstract

Supply chain plays an important role in the development of business organizations to achieve competitive advantage. Supply chain studies are continuing mainly to improve supply chain performance. Many of the literature write about the role of information sharing, partnership processes and collaboration in improving the performance of the supply chain. This research was conducted to find the relationship and influence of information sharing, supply chain partnership, and collaboration on supply chain performance on SMEs. The object of research is apple agroindustry, in East Java, Indonesia. The analysis was conducted with Partial Least Square (PLS). The results indicate only an indirect effect of information sharing on supply chain collaboration. Also, indirect effect of information sharing on supply chain performance of SMEs.