  Industry cluster and supply chain are in focus of every countries which rely
on knowledge-based economy. Both focus on improving the competitiveness of firm
in the industry in the different aspect. This paper tries to illustrate how the
industry cluster can increase the supply chain performance. Then, the proposed
methodology concentrates on the collaboration and knowledge exchange in supply
chain. For improving the capability of the proposed methodology, information
technology is applied to facilitate the communication and the exchange of
knowledge between the actors of the supply chain within the cluster. The supply
chain of French stool producer was used as a case study to validate the
methodology and to demonstrate the result of the study.
