| Summary: | 碩士 === 南臺科技大學 === 工業管理研究所 === 103 === In today`s globalization torrent, the business patterns are gradually shifted to focus
on the fulfillment of the requirement of speed and efficiency from customers, which
should be implemented in order to avoid being phased out. In the past, the focus of
supply chain was just to deliver products to customers. However, in the recent global
supply chain, companies could not easily survive by their own. The Well-known
Bullwhip effects of supply chain also force companies to formulate coordination among
their partners. The concepts of Vendor management inventory (VMI) were advent under
this motivation, where the partners share their information from upstream to
downstream, and mutually coordinate to wholly understand the entire demand along
the supply chain. Under this manner, it’s much easier to formulate the plans of
replenishment, and ease the potential bullwhip effect. Now in the 21st century, the
development of information technology (IT) is vivid, and, cloud computing technology
is receiving the spotlight. All the companies eager to adopt this technology as a
competitive source of IT. This study conducted questionnaires to investigate the
performance of VMI with various perspectives, in order to explore the potential benefits
of and opinions towards VMI among different industries. AHP was also employed to
explore the relative weights of potential measures of VMI’s benefits. The results
suggested that different industries would represent different perspectives towards VMI.
The industries of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries and manufacturing
industries would emphasize the effects of leveraging physical business structures,
whereas the industries of wholesalers and retailers would stress on enhancing the
exterior coordination. Finally, it was also found that the industries of transportation and
warehousing would prefer to have more effects on cloud computing applications.
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