Development of Innovative Business Models for Supply Chain Management

供应链管理（SCM）是一种管理集成产品开发、采购、制造、分销和销售的业务流程的方法。该研究项目的目标是利用互联网和ERP等信息网络开发供应链管理的创新业务流程。我们提出了三个具体的研究问题：1.供应链管理的商业模式研究：基于供应链管理是需求管理和供应管理的整合，我们发表了一篇研究论文，提出了一个整合营销和运营模式的框架。2.食品杂货业的ECR研究：调查了食品杂货业的SCM商业模式，特别是在7-Eleven日本的运营中发现的创新，并对其进行了分析。我们研究了强调新鲜度的食品配送SCM，并在ECR期刊上发表了这种SCM的显着特点。本文在鲜度供应链管理研究中具有开创性的贡献，受到了广泛的好评。我们还调查了日本食品工业在产品开发方面的许多案例。我们的结论是，食品行业的新产品创新不仅可以在内容上找到，而且还与销售流程和供应链设计有关。3.半导体制造中的调度：半导体供应链管理非常困难，主要是因为其制造复杂。我们开发了一个分层的生产计划和控制方法的工厂物流管理，并评估其性能使用现实的工厂数据集。我们发表了一系列的四篇关于这个主题的论文，并获得了2004年调度社会奖的调度技术。

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a method for managing the business processes that integrate product development, procurement, manufacturing, distribution and sales. The objective of this research project is to develop the innovative business processes for SCM that utilize information networks such as internet and ERP. We address three specific research issues :1.Research on business models fur SCM : Based on the insight that SCM is an integration of demand and supply management, we published a research paper that proposes a framework integrating marketing and operations models. We also published a research report summarizing the outcomes of our research project on business models participated by the members of industry, academic, and government institutions.2.Research on ECR in the grocery industry : We investigated business models for SCM in the grocery industry, and characterized the innovations, especially those that can be found in the operations in Seven-Eleven Japan. We studied the SCM for food delivery that emphasizes freshness, and published the distinguishing characteristics of such SCM in ECR Journal. This paper has been received well because of its seminal contribution in the study of the SCM for freshness. We also investigated many cases of Japanese food industries on product development. We concluded that new product innovation in the food industries can be found not only in content, but also in relation to sales processes and supply chain designs.3.Scheduling in the semiconductor manufacturing : Semiconductor SCM is very difficult primarily because its manufacturing is complex. We developed a hierarchical production planning and control method for factory material flow management, and evaluated its performance using realistic factory data sets. We published a series of four papers on this topic, and obtained the 2004 Scheduling Society Award for scheduling technologies.