It Infrastructure for Supply Chain Management in Company Networks with Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise.
Marcel Stör, Nils Rune Birkeland, Jörg Nienhaus, Guido Menkhaus · International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems · 2003
The current trend of extending operations management beyond the company’s wall focuses on the integration of suppliers and consumers into a single information network. The objective is to optimize costs and opportunities for everyone involved. However, small-sized enterprises can rarely carry the high acquisition and introduction costs of hardware and software. This reduces the attractiveness of the small-sized enterprise as partner in a logistics and a production network. This article presents a lean IT infrastructure that targets small-sized enterprises. It allows flexible and configurable integration with the Internet, ERP systems and the secure communication of supply chain management data.