| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 企業管理研究所(MBA學位學程) === 107 === The term, Industry 4.0, was first discussed at the Germany Hannover Fair in 2011. The definition of Industry 4.0 is the mode of integration of Cyber-Physical System, Big Data, Internet of Things, Smart factory, Cloud computing and other technologies, to reduce cost or improve efficiency and quality of production so that supply chain could become more flexible and rapid to respond the demand of market.
Due to the improvement of technology and Internet, manufacturing processes in manufacturing industry gradually become automatic which leads to production mode turning to more sophisticated customized system, and then the company could get the dominant position in competitive market. In the past, companies usually pursued mass production to reduce cost through economies of scale. However, in the situation of customized production, it is hard for companies to reach economies of scale. Now, the dilemma between lower cost by mass production and customization can be solved under Industry 4.0. It can be foreseen that smart customized manufacturing will be main trend soon.
This research adopt the in-depth interview method of qualitative research to collect data, selected textile industry A company as a case study object, and utilizes Supply-Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR model) as research structure. There are five process in SCOR model: Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return, and it is suitable for different kinds of industries. So the research tries to find out the effect of introducing Industry 4.0 into supply chain for the textile company which is investigated deeply under the process of SCOR model, after A Company towards Industry 4.0, The highest level of improvement in make processes was achieved, with improvements in reliability, responsiveness, agility, cost, and asset management, while other processes were partially improved, and overall enhanced the competitiveness of Company A. Taiwan is a manufacturing industry focused on the development of the economy, if enterprises cannot change in time and catch up with the wave of Industry 4.0, it is afraid to lose the advantages of the past, so under Industry 4.0 supply chain management is also extremely important.
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