Title :
Research of Apparel Supply Chain Management Service Platform
Author :
Ma, Biao ; Zhang, Ke-Jing
Author_Institution :
Dept. Informaiton Manage. & Informations Syst., Donghua Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
Information sharing is a key enabler for Apparel supply chain management. We found that service platform is useful strategy to solve issues of information sharing and integration in order to improve supply chain performance. Our research findings also suggest that there are industry-specific factors that influence information sharing. We give a framework of information system based on services. While previous studies mainly focus on why the supply chain need to sharing information, our research is try to answer how to sharing information and provide accurate and timely information for partners in supply chains and to support companies to implement their quick response strategy. This paper propose a new system model of information sharing information service model.
Keywords :
information management; production engineering computing; supply chain management; apparel; information integration; information service model; information sharing; quick response strategy; service platform; supply chain management; Clothing industry; Electricity supply industry; Food industry; Globalization; Management information systems; Manufacturing industries; Production; Subcontracting; Supply chain management; Supply chains;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4638-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4639-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5304341