A Design Methodology for Green Supply Chain Portal

• Main Authors: Wan-Hua Hung, 洪婉華
• Other Authors: Hsing-Pei Kao
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e859vc

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 工業管理研究所 === 94 === The logistics is undergoing radical change. Recently, it has become an inevitable trend for the logistic industries to carry out Green Supply Chain (GSC). GSC is well-known as that buyer companies requiring a certain level of environmental responsibility in core business practices of their suppliers and vendors. Many companies have internal standards, policies, and/or environmental management systems that govern their own environmental performance and efficiency. Nowadays, in order to integrate the GSC efficiently, information management and exchange are imperative. Nevertheless, information on internet suddenly explodes and it is almost time-consuming to find relevant and interesting information. The increasing difficulty in managing information has become one of the most common problems. That’s the reason why the idea of GSC Portal was born in this context. The proposed methodology of this research is to develop a Design Methodology for Green Supply Chain Portal. And we use Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to deploy the voice of the user and decomposed process/data flow and modules then describe their relationships. We also apply Business Process Management (BPM) techniques including extended Event-driven Process Chain Diagram (eEPC), Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Data Flow Diagram (DFD) to describe the procedures how the information produced within the GSC Portal. We analyze and design the portal in this way to define its requirements and functions. Our proposed methodology can provide the functions as follows: (1) Integrating physical Green Supply Chain processes and information portal processes to improve the efficiency, (2) Improving communications among the stakeholders involved in the Green Supply Chain, and (3) Improving the match of deployed and configured GSC Portal capability to reduce the cycle time from preparation to go live.