Design And Development Of An Integrated Supply Chain Management System In An Internet Environment | Prabina Rajib, Deepak Tiwari & Gaurav Srivastava

The Supply Chain Management is progressively becoming Internet based. This is critical for high velocity markets like those of fast moving consumer goods. With the evolution of New Supply Chain Management techniques and models, the net-based Supply Chain proves to be a major challenge. With the advent of XML and the adaptation of organizational structure to the web based databases and structured data exchange format, new tools have been developed that can exploit these databases to implement efficient business practices over the internet. The present day Information System architecture removes all barriers in the information flow and provides solutions to slash waste and maximize flexibility. In this context, we report implementation of an e-commerce application using web-enabled databases and structured data exchange.