Global competition is forcing the present day industry to produce high quality product more fast and inexpensively. In Korea, most labor-intensive industries have moved to China and other Asian countries for cost reduction. The need for fast informati...
Global competition is forcing the present day industry to produce high quality product more fast and inexpensively. In Korea, most labor-intensive industries have moved to China and other Asian countries for cost reduction. The need for fast information exchange has increased among the remote location for the cooperation and coordination. In this study, a global manufacturing system in a shoe company is constructed that distributes production schedule among remote places, acts as a bridge between the headquarters and manufacturing plants, distributes tasks and collates different solutions between demand and supply using internet.
This study proposes an internet-based framework for the order and supply management to implement the global purchasing and manufacturing system. The order and supply process include a series of activity which occurs during the whole business process starting from purchasing a raw material to a finished product. The proposed system is implemented using ASP and SGML for a shoe making company which is focused on global purchasing and offshore manufacturing.