The Collaboration of Fourth Party Logistics and ERP System
Ming Chen · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2012
To achieve full control of the supply chain, 4PL must be collaborative with the ERP system. To this end, the traditional internal information management system must be extended to outside the enterprise, and establish the e-ERP (extend-ERP) system which monitoring the whole supply chain process inside and outside the enterprise, achieving the integration of ERP and 4PL. E-ERP system is characterized by large-scale parallel processing. By the integration of supply chain, e-ERP system can achieve business synchronize, management collaboration and processes in parallel, and thus build virtualized, network-based supply chain system.