The Relation between Applications of Electronic Commerce and Performance of Supply Chain Management: An Empirical Study of Taiwan''''s Information Industry

• Main Authors: Chih-Jen Wu, 吳智仁
• Other Authors: Woo-Tsong Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96915125355276336877

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 資訊管理學系 === 89 === Along with the widespread use of Internet, E-commerce starts to expand prosperously. Business-to-Business (B-to-B) E-commerce is considered the most important part in the future E-commerce, and Supply Chain Management (SCM) is one of the applications in B-to-B E-commerce. The main purpose of SCM is to offer a low-cost, efficient, quick and flexible competitive advantage by the united operational method and the harmonious management concept for the whole supply segments. Owing to the development of E-commerce, it can help the company reduce the number of the suppliers and form an alliance among the business partners, when integrating E-commerce and SCM. It also will change the internal operation of industry to improve mutual cooperation of industries and become a competitive weapon for the business by the unification of up, middle and down streams of SCM through E-commerce. This research is to investigate the relation between applications of E-commerce and performance of SCM through empirical study by the practical questionnaire of Taiwan''''s information industry. Through the research, we hope to understand the influence of applications of E-commerce to the performance of SCM and to offer concrete suggestions for business enterprises. There are two main purposes in this study. Firstly, we want to study the relation between applications of E-commerce and performance of SCM. Secondly, we want to find out if the characteristics of the business enterprise will influence this relation. From our study, we find out that applications of E-commerce and performance of SCM are heavily related. We also find out the type of the business organization will not influence the relation between applications of E-commerce and performance of SCM, but the scale of the business organization will.