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The e-supply chain management is an important application of the B2B e-commerce. But extending the e-supply chain to the transnational scalar is not preferable, the transportation, handling and storage costs would decrease profits of the whole chain. Supposed that the manufacturing line was setup overseas, the design detail, intelligence sources, and critical components would be controlled by the core company. It is possible to build the transnational e-supply chain by means of the teleconference and e-mail techniques. (Lee, H. L. 2003)
The e-supply chain must be flexibly constructed near target customers in order to reduce the transportation cost. Once the order is confirmed, the company would carefully formulate the chain. According to the capacitated plant location model, different "layers" of technique information would be sent to every chain members through the internet. Any potential or interested buyers could purchase well-finished products or ideas from the company's website. A case study operated by Hsieh Hsing Enterprise Organization at its sale point of south-eastern Asia would be discussed. How to manipulate the transnational e-supply chain management would be presented.
Keywords: supply chain management, e-supply chain, transnational
Introduction
As well known, markets of manufacturing business at the south-eastern Asia and the mainland China areas grow rapidly now-a-day. The Hsieh Hsing Enterprise Organization had built up 6 sale points: 2 at Thailand, 2 at Malaysia, 1 in Indonesia, and 1 in Mainland China, and all of sale networks were fully functional. The business of the company is to export transportation equipments, hydraulic and pneumatic components to these areas, and imports assembling parts of transportation equipments to its manufacturing line at Taiwan. Eventually, the profit is slim, and the market competition is severe. Therefore, how to decrease costs of shipment, handling and storage becomes the main concern of the company. There are two ways to improve the situation: one is to expand product items, and to develop new products. Another is to sale intelligence properties including well-developed and newly designed ones, because the technical level between the Taiwan's and the south-eastern Asia's is not the same. From this point of view, the e-supply chain is no doubt to be the common solution of all of them. (Simchi-Levi, et. al. 2000)
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