Application Of Information Technology In Supply Chain Management

The trend of the economic globalization makes the competition among companies becoming intense. With the development of science and technology, the updating for products becomes faster and faster. The customers hope products not only have good qualities but also have proper prices, as same time the uncertainty of market makes the operation of companies more and more complicated. So in the new century, the competition exists mainly among supply chains instead of companies.As a new idea of enterprise management, the supply chain management will influence the competition mode in the future greatly. Information sharing is the key constituent of supply chain management strategies. The success of SCM is based on high-quality information transmission and sharing among every node of enterprise, therefore, the SCM will not be efficient without the reliable support of information technology system. The use of IT is the key to SCM and it is very important in the area of SCM.The thesis introduces the background of SCM and the concepts of supply chain management, mainly analyzes the support about information technology in SCM. By contact with engineering practice, the paper decribes how to improve the function of the early information system MRP, and how to make it change into the new type information system of SCM mode. Through the actual using of this information system, it can reach the goals of lower cost, the customer is satisfied with delivery date, flexible correspond to production. It plays a great role in raising the managerial skill of the enterprise. The last part introduces the trend of future supply chain management, the focus of supply chain management has been shifted from production efficiency to customer-driven, E-supply chain and intelligence supply chain.