E-commerce Solutions for Supply Chain Management: a Comparative Review
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چکیده
Supply chain management (SCM) has recently attracted significant interests from academics and industry. Along with the growing concern of implementing supply chain management in many enterprises, there has been a proliferation of two kinds of software solutions, business-to-business (B2B) and supply chain management (SCM), which aim at improving the performance of supply chain. The first part of this article reviewed some literatures related to three core processes in supply chain: product design and development, supply chain planning and order life cycle. The second part of this article presented a comparison of these software solutions based on the functionality offered by three leading vendors in each kind of solutions. The emphasis of each kind of solution is contrasted and some areas are identified for future development. The results of the comparisons indicate several research directions in the field of supply chain management.
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