Because of the advance of Internet and the outsourcing, multi-company cooperation is imperative under this circumstance. In order to monitor states between partners during execution, this thesis develops exception handling mechanisms based on Web service stack. After detecting exceptions, the first step is to make use of the fault handler and compensation handler provided by the BPEL4WS specification to roll back planned or even executed business processes belonging to the same scope to the original state. The second step is to utilize the resources searching mechanism, including BE4WS and BCME, to find suitable substitutes to make a replacement or find fitting partners to cooperate with the original one. The third step is to take advantage of the extensibility, flexibility and scalability of BPEL4WS business process to adjust and re-form a new one to handle this unexpected situation. This study uses the LCD supply chain as an example to evaluate the proposed exception handling mechanisms. The result shows that the proposed methods obtain encouraging performance. The major contribution of this research is the initiation efforts on developing exception handling mechanisms based on Web service technologies to improve the exception handling performance.

To satisfy the transportation service request of clients and to control the associated costs are the main targets of marine container transportation industry. To achieve the transportation service for clients, plenty of participants and procedures are involved in the Marine Supply Chain (MSC), leading to the need of exchanging a huge amount of information. This study is focused on how and what kind of information sharing should be exchanged in these participants and procedures of Maritime Supply Chain. We use UMM (UN/CEFACT Modeling Methodology of ebXML business process) to investigate the business processes between participants in Marine Supply Chain. We also conducted a case study in an important location of maritime supply chain, i.e., Port Container Terminal to discuss about the information sharing content and sharing pattern in MSC processes. The result shows that in the marine cargo delivery process, Port Container Terminal is responsible for Berth Schedule Planning, Berth Planning, Yard Planning and Gate Planning to achieve the container transport service for the clients. Therefore, plenty of participants and procedures have to be involved in the Marine Supply Chain, and plenty of information have to be interchanged. However, beside Customs Clearance procedure, there are no common information technology platform and standard for information interchange in marine container transportation industry. To improve the service quality of domestic marine cargo delivery, we have to establish an information sharing system. Moreover, I personally hope this study can be used as a reference of information system analysis and design. Improving the information sharing standardization and building information sharing pattern can simplify and improve the procedures of marine cargo delivery system.

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The screw nut (Fasteners) is known as the ¡§Rice of Industry¡¨. It is mainly applied on durable products such as automobile, electric apparatus, machinery, construction and building. Most of the durable products belong to the global products except the construction and building, which belong to regional. Due to the global competition, the competitions among the systems and supply chains have been formed. The improvement of the individual enterprise is not able to rely on the resource and ability of that organization only. It should operate across the border of the enterprises, and operate cooperatively with the downstream clients of the supply chains and the upstream manufacturers in order to improve the global competitiveness of the supply chain and seek for further development. Nowadays, the Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is the core of the trend of supply chain management (SCM) of global Fasteners industry. Taiwan is known as the empire of screw nut and it is not possible to neglect the operation trend of the global Fasteners market. This study attempts utilizing the characteristics of the System Dynamics, for which it is excellent on studying dynamic complicated system, to analyze the operation mechanism and structure of the Fasteners supply chain under VMI mode and applying synchronized mode. The individual dynamic model will be established to simulate the overall operation of the supply chain and compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two models. In addition, according to the major operation conditions and the demanding types, the model established by this study is utilized to develop the decision-making support tool for implementation of VMI mode of Fasteners industry. The conclusion of this study include (1) adding the synchronized model to Fasteners supply chain VMI mode can improve the operation performance of the enterprise, (2) to establish the design principle and steps of adding the design of synchronization to VMI mode. There are two contributions in this study: (1) the collocation of adding synchronization to the VMI mode model has proved that the combination with the synchronization mode can improve the performance of VMI mode. (2) The design principle and steps of adding the design of synchronization to VMI mode can be the reference for design steps of adding synchronization mode to the industry that implements VMI operation mode.

Supply Chain Management involves the cross-organizational interaction and integration, sharing of resources and information, supply chain to optimize the overall goal. In this process there are many interference performance of the uncertainty factors, instead of the uncertainty generated, the extent of the supply chain members unable to obtain the information needed for decision-making. The lack of transparency of information, it will cause the supply chain every member of inventory cost and increase productivity without the use of efficiency, reduce the competitiveness of enterprises. Based on the study that through information sharing, process reengineering and the establishment of performance appraisal system can be an effective supply chain operation of the uncertainty facing the problems and improve the performance of the supply chain and business performance. The results showed that backlight module manufacturing industries belong to industry, labor-intensive, highly customized products. short product life cycles and frequent changes in the demand for the supply chain characteristics, its own high demand uncertainty, through with the customer demand for information-sharing and coordination process, which can effectively reduce demand uncertainty, Implement process improvement orders In cross-organizational coordination mechanism, through information sharing will help the supply chain, reduce the bullwhip effect on the supply chain significantly, and its customers and share the risks and profit sharing. In addition, the synergistic operation of the supply chain framework of analysis, cooperative enterprise in pursuit of enterprises operating information Seamlessly and the operation of the synchronization overall cooperation can play the largest comprehensive Synergy.

With rapid growth for years, Taiwan IC industry has played an important position in the world. In addition to the growth, close interaction and cooperation among firms have become the characteristics of Taiwan IC industry. Currently, time-based competition has been one of the most important factors for business success, and the competition in the 21st century relies on strategic supply chain management. Through interfirm collaboration by sharing information among supply chain partners, some activities originally performed in an individual firm are replaced by firms with core competency. In performing these activities, the competitive advantages through the supply chain information integration are gradually recognized. The objective of this article is to realize the current situation and future plan of inter-organizational information sharing (IOIS) in Taiwan IC industry. From literature, there are lots of factors that influence the success of IOIS, this paper focuses on some areas, such as benefits from IOIS, motivations of IOIS, risks from IOIS, strategic or operational reasons, IT maturity among firms, key success factors of IOIS, and the initiator of industrial IOIS. Through questionnaire survey, we collect and analyze various viewpoints from companies of Taiwan IC industry supply chain, including IC design houses, IC fabs, assembly and testing houses, assembly material and equipment suppliers. After the empirical analysis, we compare the findings with literatures. We conclude that the IOIS, namely networked IOIS, in Taiwan IC industry proceeds toward reciprocal interdependencies between organizations. The coordination mechanisms count on standards, rules, and mutual adjustment. Initially, the networked IOIS will tend to be much less structured and the potential for conflict may be higher. At present, because of lack of reliable and mature information connection among firms, the intensive information technology support is needed. Finally, based on the findings, we summarize the characteristics and present the model of IOIS for Taiwan IC industry supply chain. Then, some suggestions are arisen for industry reference, including mutual benefit realization and cooperation willingness, protection of business confidential and data security, integration of enterprise systems and industrial standard messages, proposal of IC industry association to be the coordinator or initiator of IOIS, step by step implementation according to priorities of information type, and integration of information flow with manufacturing goods flow in the supply chain.

Abstract The main purpose of this study is to conjecture the change of relative advantages and their interactive relationship during the three-tier supply chain. Based on this change and interactive relationship, strategically formed methods and models are developed. The three-tier supply chain is mainly defined as global brand marketing companies, OEM/ODM manufacturers, and raw material suppliers. In this study, the OEM/ODM manufacturers, which are the middle-tier, are selected as the research subject of target enterprises. The proposed analytical method, which mainly focuses on the interactive transformation of QFD relative matrix, is the basis for the strategic development of the OEM/ODM manufacturers. And we also adopt practical three-tier cases to test and verify, through verification of this strategy by simulation models. The results show that the strategy formed based on the model developed is capable to produce acceptable suggestions for the OEM/ODM manufacturers. Keyword: Supply Chain management, Strategic Interaction, Value System, e-Business

The Internet provides convenience to the development of e-business, and most of enterprises go after e-business to improve their competitive advantages. And supply chain management systems turn into a leading character within this economic trend. In this study, we focus on what can be done in the transformation of traditional chemicals industry to become electronic chemicals industry and to get the competitive advantage. The exploratory methods are used to collect, analyses, and classify the relationships of the businesses in the supply chain management. And the tools such as BCG, Value Chain, and SWOT, etc., are utilized to find out the possible feasible transformation strategies. To verify the feasibility of the transformation strategy suggestions, we interview the reputation executives of related enterprises. The results show that the suggestions are acceptable for the practical businesses for helping them toward to the e-business.

Abstract When multinational enterprise invested into the worldwide with its huge economic scale, well-organized structure and excellent skill of Supply Chain Management were used as competed resources in the global economic environment. It helps business growing and profit increasing. However, a capable skill of Supply Chain Management relay on a precise Procurement Management System, especially the ability of evaluation and management. The purposes of this study are to discover the key factors for the multinational enterprise evaluated suppliers, summarize those key factors and offer a bunch mark as reference for the Taiwanese enterprise. To be a top supplier of those multinational enterprise not only bring the rich profit, strong business foundation and fast growing, but also got a very good learning chance to become a multinational enterprise. This research discovered several important factors when a multinational enterprise evaluated their suppliers; 1.Technical Skill - Suppliers own a Research and Development team. 2. Quality - Certifications is necessary. 3. Feed Back and Service - Customer requirements response within 24 hours. 4. Delivery - Reduce the lead-time of delivery products. 5. Cost - Reduce the cost from the product re-design. 6. Environment Protection - Products contain environment protection concept. 7. Business Management - Supply the products steadily. 8. Globalization - Globalization of supply services. 9. Politics and Culture - Steady politics and diligent people.

In this study, we seek to contribute to theoretical understanding of the effect of trust on supply chain performance under different market environments. We are aiming to design the trust mechanisms suitable for network enabled organizations (Straub and Watson, 2002) to evaluate partners¡¦ trustworthiness on the fly of supplier choice. The sophistication of agent technologies in the future also can execute such supply chain negotiation based on the developed trust mechanisms. Before that, in this research, we use the multi-agent simulation system, Swarm, for simulating and analyzing the supply chain performance in four different market environments. Supply chain performance is evaluated using an example order fulfillment process of the mold industry to compare its performance with versus without trust mechanisms. Sensitivity analysis is used for examining the properties of the proposed trust mechanisms. We found that the trust mechanism will reduce the average cycle time rate and raise the in-time order fulfillment rate, but increase the unit cost of materials. Higher of trustor's propensity to trust results in higher in-time order fulfillment rate. This mechanism is better than just using quote price and due date, but it raises the unit cost of materials. The range of raised cost are controlled within 3%. We can consider this 3% additional material cost as the premium of the expectation of better quality and shorter cycle time.