Modeling and Simulation of Auction-based Souring Process in i-Hub Supported Extended Supply Chain

• Main Authors: Jun-Yu Shao, 邵駿宇
• Other Authors: Hsing-Pei Kao
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67271298170809237459

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 工業管理研究所 === 91 === Owing to the rapidly grow and popularization of Internet and information technology, enterprises today are facing a tough environment to run their business. Challenges such as increased demand, decreased customer loyalty, shorter product life-cycles, and mass product customization drive enterprises to knock down the outer walls among them and streamline their business processes more smoothly. Collaboration becomes the Next Big Thing in the next generation of supply chain management. Through the Internet and information system, mass information and data exchange and sharing are easier than before. Besides, popularization of Internet speeds up collaborative process in the supply chain. Electronic commerce develops rapidly and provides a new platform for enterprises to execute collaboration. A new information sharing model is growing up to meet the complex requirements of information deployment. Information Hub (i-Hub) is the latest evolution of information sharing that provides central information deployment and leads a new business model in the extended supply chain. Focusing on the extended supply chain embedded with i-Hub, we specifically address the auction-based demand fulfillment process by modeling the collaborative processes that consist of (1) Grouping and Auction Type Selection Process, (2) Auction Announcement and Bidding Process, and (3) Market Clearance and Auction Information Reveal Process. Applying Event-driven Process Chain Diagram, Unified Modeling Language, and Petri Net, we developed a methodological framework to depict the collaborative process and simulate the auction process regarding computer assembly industry.