A Comparison Analysis of Information Sharing in Supply Chain: Two Friend Countries

In today’s supply chain is not effective and efficient without information sharing. Many researches have been published on information sharing. In this article, we will examine the comparison of two countries -Pakistan and China-. For the fulfil the purpose of this research, we have sent structured-questionnaire to companies as well we conducted couple of interviews with senior management of supply chain for investigation the phenomena and get in-depth knowledge of topic. We have used “Paired T-Test” for analysis of research. Mainly research findings are: The Pakistani companies are more willing to share their information with supply chain partners (suppliers) as compare to the Chinese companies; because of higher information sharing in Pakistani’s firms; their performance is better than Chinese firms; but one interesting findings; we got is “both countries firms are on same page about fear of compromising of their confidentiality and several times firms share information late” and due to these “fear” still firms are unable to achieve and enjoy fruitful benefits of information sharing on full scale.