A case study of cloud computing deployment in supply chain management system KHASHAYAR RAISIFARD, YAZRIWATI YAHYA, NAZRI KAMA, NURULHUDA

From the beginning, enabling the companies to lower operating costs and to fulfil increasing order volumes has been the main purpose of Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems. However, the current SCM systems though bring some significant input still have issues when it comes to data integration between the stakeholders. Due to this matter, the documentation process also will be very challenging. After cloud computing emerged as a revolutionary technology having significant advantages for enterprises, especially for the large ones, a huge number of enterprises started using cloud to enhance their Supply Chain Management systems. This paper concentrates on SCM Cloud system focused on a selected module which facilitate the procurement activities such as manage tenders and manage contracts by presenting the information captured from the SAP systems. By deploying cloud based, data integration and documentation process in the selected module will be much easier, suggesting better resource consumption and more economical. Key-Words: Supply Chain Management System, cloud computing, post award