Electronic Commerce Based Supply Chain Management

Internet technology has been used increasingly to enhance the global competitiveness of various industries through the widespread applications of cost effective electronic commerce (EC). In this paper, we focus on information infrastructure, flow coordination, and EC front-end for supply chain management. Three main modules are proposed to conjoin various business organizations and to strengthen business competence, namely (1) an efficient web page and catalogue generator; (2) a hybrid search engine specifically for product, merchandise, equipment, and other enabling technologies; and (3) a traffic analyzer of profile management to improve the information layering and organization. We also present an example of EC deployment and impact studies for textile industry Index Terms – Internet, electronic commerce, Supply chain management.