文档介绍：信息系统外文文献及译文
南 京 工 程 学 院
英文文献及译文
作 者： 邵亚雯 学 号： 209090712
系 部： 经济管理学院
专 eam firms and the horizontal information of the internal enterprise, as well as information of the macro level. How to transmit and share information, to coordinate economic behavior of the upstream and downstream enterprises and functional behavior of interal enterprise which is the core questions supply chain management is to deal with. Compared with the individual enterprises, supply chain as an extended enterprise, shows own characteristics by its way of information flow and acquisition.
2 The Characteristics of the Supply Chain Information Flow
Wide coverage
The information of the supply chain covers from all links of suppliers, manufacturers to distributors and then retailers in the supply chain. Information flow distinct into information flow of demand and supply, these are two different flows of information flow. When demand information (such as customer orders, production planning, procurement, etc.) takes direction from the demand-side to the supply-side movement, it triggered logistics. Meanwhile supply information (such as storage lists, the inventory records for sales, deliver lists), together again along with materials for the direction of the supply chain from supply-side to demand-side movement. The information flow of individual enterprises mainly confined to the internal Invoicing records (see figure 1).
More access channels
As businesses in the supply chain is a collaboration relationship and community interests, information of the supply chain have so many channels to obtain. demand information isn’t only from the customers but also distributors and retailers; the supply Information is from various suppliers, These information flow and share in all enterprises through the supply chain information systems . For individual enterprises, as it haven’t formed the Community interests with upstream and downstream bu