Enhancing Operations of Supply Chain Management through a Responsive Information Framework

Abstract:

Logistics management becomes an important competency in today’s highly competitive market; it has been a focus on the research of information systems, which act as the tools to enhance the capability of supply chain network. To compete and survive in this ever-changing global marketplace, individual companies can hardly survive in isolation of their business partners, suppliers, and other service providers. However, the lack of a seamless interchange and efficient data analysis hinders the formation of an effective information infrastructure that serves as the platform for data interchange of the heterogeneous database systems in the supply chain network. This paper proposed an infrastructure of information system that encompasses data mining and workflow management capability by adopting the advanced technologies of Online Analysis Process (OLAP) and workflow management system to facilitate supply chain management.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 665)
• Pages: 751-755
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.665.751
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Henry Lau*
• Keywords: Information Network, Supply Chain

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