Study On Virtual Enterprese And Agile Supply Chain

Virtual enterprise is considered as the most competitive operational schema of enterprises in competitive, collaborative and dynamic environment in 21st century. Virtual Enterprise is set up for quick response to the faster change competition environment and a 'foreseen market chance. It is a common profit organization for all its member companies, and is a way to approach the global agile manufacturing. Agile Supply Chain Management is an important enabling technology for supporting business operation of a virtual enterprise.In this paper, the concept of the core-competence is analyzed and discussed. Then a qualitative frame is presented to identify core-competence. Moreover, a quantitative method is proposed to identify core-competence for Virtual enterprises, and a simplified simulation is carried out to illustrate the validity of the proposed method. Based on the analysis of the defects of the traditional enterprises' organization form currently used, .this paper proposed a 3-tier organization form for virtual enterprise. Determining the supply and demand cooperating pattern (SDCP) between business entities is the basis of building agile supply chain management system. The process and decision factors of choice of SDCP have been analyzed in this paper deeply. The evaluation architecture of choice of SDCP has been established and an optimization decision method of choice of SDCP has been put forward. Many researchers have investigated the dynamics of buyer-supplier relationships. However, the relationships between suppliers and its potential impact on the buyer-supplier relationship have not yet been considered. This paper proposed three archetypes of supplier-supplier relationships and analyzed their affection on buyer-supplier relationship. This paper analyzed the shortcomings of the present enterprises' information system, and then put forward a feasible integration solution. Taking advantage of the implementation of e-commerce, the enterprises can longitudinally integrate e- commerce with existing internal information system, suppliers and clients to build an open integratedinformation system, which will greatly boost enterprises' information processing speed, automation level and competitive ability. This paper introduced the design and implementation of an agile supply chain information system based on browser/server structure.