The authors analyze the management mode of production logistics in small and medium enterprises (SMES) with short production cycle to design the proper information system of production logistics and enhance the management performance of these enterprises production logistics.

Considering the feature of short life cycle products,the author analyzes the specialty of short life cycle products ordering and the ordering mechanism of a simple two-echelon supply chain system.

Comparison of three inventory models of short life cycle products;

The forecasting studies for short life cycle products were summarized in this paper.

This paper considers a two-echelon supply chain system with one distributoy,and one manufacturer,who supply the customers with one kind of short life cycle product.

Supply Chain Coordination with Profit-Sharing Contract for a Short-Life-Cycle Product

According to the case in practices, in which a short-life-cycle product is sold with different prices in different selling periods under information update, a combined contract with different prices is designed to coordinate the supply chain channel.

We address the challenge in dealing with the short-life-cycle product that is characterized by the uncertain demand and the single-cycle with several selling periods,and study the decision behaviors of agents on supply chain under four representative operation settings according to the thought of progressive extension.