However, sharing information also posses significant challenges.

As reviewed in Lee
and Whang (1998), the challenges include: incentive issues, confidentiality of the
information shared, anti-trust regulations, reliability and cost of information
technology, the timeliness and accuracy of the shared information, and finally the
development of capabilities that allow companies to utilize the shared information
in an effective way

Cooper et al (1997)
Huang and Gangopadhyay (2004) study again for simulation