International Journal of Manufacturing Systems2152-19132152-1921Academic Journals Inc.10.3923/ijmsaj.2011.9.29KhuranaM.K. MishraP.K. SinghA.R. 1201111Implementation of supply chain management requires integration of processes between supply chain members in all functional areas, including sourcing, manufacturing and distribution. The need for the successful implementation of information Sharing has been identified as being critical to effective innovation and development of supply chain management at an industry and enterprise level. The objective of this study is to identify and measure the perceived importance of information sharing barriers in supply chain management. The barriers have been categorized into the six main different levels namely managerial, organizational, technological, individual, financial, social and cultural. A questionnaire and interview based research approach was adopted for this purpose to identify perceptions of the most significant barriers to information sharing. It is found that the data collected through questionnaires are sometimes very much ambiguous or vague and insufficient to interpret the significant results. In this study, a fuzzy AHP approach has been used to overcome this kind of deficiency for modeling the rankings of the barriers of information sharing in supply chain management is used. Firstly, the linguistic assessment on barrier is converted into triangular fuzzy numbers. These triangular fuzzy numbers are used to build the comparison matrices of AHP based on pair wise comparison technique. This study has attempted to identify the important and legitimate barriers of information sharing in supply chain management. The findings of this research can be used for developing an evidence based ranking of barriers of information sharing in supply chain.]]>Agarwal, A. and R. Shankar,20038324334Ardichvill, A., V. Page and T. Wentling,200376477Ayag, Z. and R.G. Ozdemir,200617179190Ayers, J.B.,20001st Edn.,Pages: 488Pages: 488Barson, R.J., G. Foster, T. Struck, S. Ratchev, K. Pawar, F. Weber and M. Wunram,20002000pp: 1150pp: 1150Bender, P.S.,200045258Boender, C.G.E., J.G. de Grann and F.A. Lootsma,198929133143Buckley, J.J.,198517233247Bures, V.,200365762Butcher, H.,1998pp: 106pp: 106Caudle, S., W. Gorr and K. Newcomer,199115171188Chan, F.T.S., N. Kumar, M.K. Tiwari, H.C.W. Lau and K.L. Choy,20084638253857Cheng, C.H. and D.L. Mon,199463110Childhouse, P. and D.R. Towill,2003311727Clark, T.H. and J.H. Hammond,19976248265Connelly, C.E. and E.K. Kelloway,200324294301Constant, D., S. Keisler and L. Sproull,19945400421Cragg, P., M. King and H. Hussin,200211109132Cress, U., J. Kimmerle and F.W. Hesse,200633370390Curry, A. and C. Moore,20062391110Damaskopoulos, P. and T. Evgeniou,200321133145Dawes, S.S.,199615377394Dawes, S.S.,1997pp: 36pp: 36Deng, H.,199921215231Fawcett, S.E., G.N. Magnan and M.W. McCarter,20083318342Gil-Garcia, J.R., I.S. Chengalur-Smith and P. Duchessi,200716121133Hansen, H.S.,20052005pp: 7587Hoffman, J.M. and S. Mehra,200011365373Holden, S.H., D.F. Norris and P.D. Fletcher,200326325344Jarrell, J.L.,1998115861Johnson, E.J. and J.W. Payne,198531395414Kahraman, C., U. Cebeci and Z. Ulukan,200316382394Kamal, M.M. and Themistocleous,20062006pp: 111Kilpatrick, J. and R. Factor,2000451620Kolekofski, K.E. and A.R. Heminger,200340521532Lee, H.L. and S. Whang,200017993Lee, M., H. Pham and X. Zhang,1999118375389Leung, L.C. and D. Cao,2000124102113Li, L.,20004811961212Lin, C.P.,200770411428Love, P.E.D., Z. Irani, E.W.L. Cheng and R.Y.C. Tse,200113141Marsh, L. and R. Flanagan,20007423435McCarter, M.W. and G.B. Northcraft,200725498511Milward, H.B.,198213457478Moberg, C.R., B.D. Cutler, A. Gross and T.W. Speh,200232755770Monczka, R.M. and J. Morgan,19971226973Motwani, J., M. Madan and A. Gunasekaran,200013320327Murtaza, M.B.,200321109116Newcomer, K.E. and S.L. Caudle,199151377384O'Dell, C. and C.J. Grayson,199840154174Pendlebury, A.J., B. Grouard, F. Meston and J. Pendlebury,1998pp: 318pp: 318Premkumar, G. and K. Ramamurthy,199526303336Saaty, T.L.,1980Pages: 287Pages: 287Small, M.H.,199999266277Small, M.H. and M.M. Yasin,199715349370Songer, A.D., R. Young and K. Davis,20012001pp: 114Soriano, D.R., S. Roig, J.R. Sanchis and R. Torcal,20022095103Stephenson, P. and S. Blaza,20012001pp: 112Stevens, L.,200035460Stewart, R.A., S. Mohamed and M. Marosszeky,20044155172Sun, H., R. Hjulstad and J. Frick,199916548556Szulanski, G.,1996172743Thorpe, T. and S. Mead,2001127406413Tsai, W.,200213179190Weippert, A., S.L. Kajewski and P.A. Tilley,20022103116Willem, A. and M. Buelens,200717581606Zadeh, L.A.,19658338353Zhao, X. and J. Xie,200240311335Zipf, P.J.,2000163439Ives, W., B. Torrey and C. Gordon,20022002pp: 99-129pp: 99-129Jarvenpaa, S.L. and D.S. Staples,20009129154Kwan, A.T.E.,199940715Chong, S. and G. Pervan,20012001