Development of Innovative Business Models for Supply Chain Management

供应链管理(SCM)是一种管理集成了产品开发、采购、制造、分销和销售的业务流程的方法。本研究项目的目标是利用互联网和ERP等信息网络，为供应链管理开发创新的业务流程。1.供应链管理的商业模式研究：基于供应链管理是需求和供应管理的结合这一观点，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。我们还发表了一份研究报告，总结了我们在行业、学术和政府机构成员参与的商业模式研究项目的成果。2.杂货业ECR研究：我们调查了杂货业SCM的商业模式，并表征了创新，特别是在日本Seven-Eleven的运营中可以发现的创新。我们研究了强调新鲜的食品配送供应链管理，并在ECR期刊上发表了这种供应链管理的特点。这篇论文在新鲜度供应链管理的研究中做出了开创性的贡献，因此受到了好评。我们还调查了许多日本食品行业在产品开发方面的案例。我们的结论是，食品行业的新产品创新不仅体现在内容上，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，主要是因为其制造工艺复杂。提出了一种用于工厂物流管理的分级生产计划与控制方法，并利用实际工厂数据集对其性能进行了评估。我们发表了四篇关于这一主题的系列论文，并获得了2004年调度学会的调度技术奖。

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.