Electronics Enterprises Agile Supply Chain Building and Best Practice
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Liu, Xiang-Nian
Abstract
The electronic industry is one of the important pillar industries of China now. However electronic industry fierce competition led the whole electronic industry to stay in the era of meager profit. Especially in the China, customer requirements are more critical, more sensitive to the price, and more timely for delivery. All the requirements caused electronic industry to face great pressure. With the development of computer and network technology, the Internet is like a raging fire in various Internet application platform, in the electronic industry to bring unlimited business opportunities at the same time, it also brings more challenges. The electronic enterprises in the era of networks are facing intense competition, the market demand is complicated and changeable, the product renewal is getting faster, the enterprise is necessary to agile thinking applied to supply chain management, in order to improve the rapid response capability of the changes of external environment and user needs change. This paper in-depth analysis of the characteristics of the electronics enterprises combining with the electronics industry .Through the supply chain strategy matching , combining with the characteristics of agile supply chain and facing a high supply and demand uncertainty in electronic industry, we got that electronic enterprises is suitable for the agile supply chain strategy. On this basis, this paper explained the definition and characteristics of agile supply chain, analyzed the basis of construction of electronic enterprises, the principle of constructing agile supply chain and the method of constructing agile supply chain for electronic enterprises. Furthermore the paper further analysis the optimization of agile supply chain operation for electronic enterprises and risk management .At the end, this paper re-explained the enterprise agile supply chain construction, optimization and risk management taking Philips lighting as an example. This paper is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter is the Abstract. Starting from the current status of China electronic industry, imports of electronic data, the first chapter elaborates that. In the second chapter, the paper gives a detailed analysis of the characteristics for the electronics industry. Combining with the electronic enterprises supply chain strategy matching and characteristics of agile supply chain, the paper reach the conclusion that electronic industry should adopt agile supply chain. On this basis, this thesis gives the definition and characteristics of agile supply chain. The third chapter in-depth analyzes the foundation of constructing agile supply chain for electronic enterprises, the principle and method of constructing agile supply chain for electronic enterprises .In the fourth chapter, on the basis of the third chapter the paper explains the execution and optimization of agile supply chain for electronic enterprises. Partner selection optimization, product module design and products optimization and the supply chain operation index optimization are the main methods to improve the operation of agile supply chain for electronic industry. In this chapter the paper also mentioned the mass customization, the delay strategy and knowledge management are main methods also to improve the agile supply chain. The fifth chapter analyzes the risk management of agile supply chain. This chapter explains the definition, identification, measurement , control and management of risk for agile supply chain. In the sixth chapter, the paper analysis agile supply chain construction, best practices and risk management through the Philips lighting case.
Subjects
Agile Supply Chain
The bullwhip effect
Mass customization delay policy
knowledge management
Type
thesis