A Study on the Feature and Improvement for e-Commerce of Parts Procurement in the Japanese Automobile Industry
Kwang-Hee Han · The Journal of the Korea Contents Association · 2005
The purpose of this study is how to apply to e-Commerce of parts procurement system in the Japanese Automobile Industry and examine the influence of that through the case studies of automobile makers. In the Japanese automobile industry, B2B e-Commerce of parts procurement system have a shifted from closed circuits through VAN to opened IP-VPN and eventually to the JNX of internet environment. The Japanese automobile industry depends mainly on IP-VPN and JNX, especially EDI on a one to one basis with parts procurement suppliers. As to the future direction of B2B e-Commerce of parts procurement in the Japanese automobile industry, many of commodity parts will be traded among established participants on internet websites owned by automobile maker groups. Finally, for improvement of B2B e-Commerce of parts procurement in the Japanese automobile industry I suggested that there are 'revitalize of e-Marketplace', 'improvement of IT and business process', 'extension of B2B e-Commerce among small and medium sized suppliers'.