Abstract
With the high grow of the product competition, the international brand companies frequently request Taiwan’s manufacturing companies for quick deliveries and door-to-door shipping. Except providing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and original design manufacturer (ODM) services, Taiwan’s manufacturing companies are forming alliances with their clients and joining global logistics activities to crate advanced supply chain value. The information management system would affect the global logistics management executive performance of the enterprises. In the recent trends, the enterprises continually apply new technology or integrate with complementary system to improve the capabilities of their logistics information systems. In addition, enterprises need more accurate and real time information transparency to control merchandise situation and inventory under global production and distribution model. The information and decision supports provided by current systems are not necessarily able to fast and appropriately reveal utility. Radio frequency identification (RFID) which has increased attention due to enable to automatic data capture and identification is regarded as a viable technology to enhance supply chain efficiency. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to develop a RFID-based e-logistics management platform. There are four parts in this thesis. The first part is to propose an integrated business and logistics hub model which offers a cooperative logistics environment to assist industries to improve their logistics operations and facilitate global supply chain linkage. The second part is to design the platform framework and corresponding modules to strengthen the proposed integrated logistics hub model. Furthermore, this research refers to the latest EPC Network international standards to construct the RFID events management mechanism. In the third part, this study depictes the system analysis and design activities for supporting the second stage and plans information transmission approach among distributed systems from the point of view of Web Services integration technology. Finally, a prototype system is implemented with an illustrated case of the automotive aftermarket part company to demonstrate the results of proposed framework. Moreover, an investment feasibility analysis, encompassing related equipments costs and logistics saving benefits of proposed platform, has been carried out to assess the economical profitability when implementing into supply chain.