Abstract
The 21st Century is a century when the hi-tech industry is going to encounter radical and rapid changes. Future competition strategy will evolve from company vs. company to supply chain vs. supply chain. Individual companies that wish to excel and succeed in the fast clockspeed industry climate, must focus on their core competence and consign non-core business to qualified suppliers based on the application and execution of a well-designed supply chain management. The research subject in this thesis is T Company in the wireless surveillance industry. The thesis aims at exploring how to design and manage supply chain for the said industry in a high-clockspeed and short life-cycle environment, and how to apply Double Helix model to determine the best make-or-buy decision making timing, so as to enhance individual firm’s core competence at the face of sharp competition and dwindling profit margin. The purpose in this thesis is to examine the critical factors in the make-or-buy decision making for the wireless surveillance products by conducting a case study on T Company; and therefore, propose an effective decision-making framework. The thesis uses the competitive advantages of T Company and a working supply chain layout to examine the make-or-buy decision making on T Company’s various series of products. The research result proofs: 1. The five critical factors involved in the make-or-buy decision making for wireless surveillance products are: (1) competitive advantages, (2) demand flexibility, (3) enhancement of future core competence, (4) modularization of components, and (5) availability of qualified suppliers. 2. Either applying the frameworks proposed by Sislian and Satir（2000） or using the architecture developed by Fine and Whitney (1996) to analyze T Company’s make-or-buy decision making, the result is proved to be identical. The conclusion reached can be applied to different companies in the industry.