Supply Chain Management in Electronic Businesses.

 Acknowledgements 1
Introduction 4
CHAPTER I
1. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM) 6
1.1. Supply Chain Management – the concept 6
1.2. Evolution of Supply Chain Management 8
1.2.1. The Evolving Structure of Supply Chains 10
1.3. Stages of Supply Chain Management Development 13
1.3.1. First Stage Logistics Decentralization 14
1.3.2. Second Stage Total Cost Management 14
1.3.3. Third Stage Integrated Functions 15
1.3.4. Fourth Stage Supply Chain Management 15
1.3.5. Fifth Stage e-Supply Chain Management 16
1.4. Electronic Supply Chain Management (e-SCM) 17
1.4.1. Characteristics of e-SCM 17
1.4.2. e-Supply Chain Synchronization 18
CHAPTER II
2. E-BUSINESS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 20
2.1. Electronic business 20
2.1.1. Subset 21
2.1.2. Models 22
2.1.3. Classification by Provider and Consumer 22
2.2. Effects of e-Business on the Supply Chain Management 23
2.2.1. e-Business and Change 24
2.2.2. e-Transformation 25
2.3. Information systems that support the supply chain integration and management 27
2.3.1. Data Capture and Data Communications 28
2.3.2. Data Storage and Retrieval 29
2.3.3. Data Manipulation and Reporting 30
2.3.4. Internal Data Integration 31
2.3.4.1. ERP and the Internet 32
2.4. E-Business and Supply Chain Integration 34
2.4.1 Barriers to Using the Internet in Supply Chain Integration 35
2.5. Electronic Commerce and Supply Chain 36
2.5.1 Procurement and E-Commerce 37
2.5.1.1. Process and E-Procurement 41
2.5.1.2. A Model for E-Procurement 42
2.6. e-Collaboaration 45
2.7. The influence of IT architecture of an organization on its potential to reshape its Supply Chain Management. 47
2.8. The State of Supply Chain Intergration in Romanian Companies. 49
2.8.1. Avicola Calarasi 49
2.8.2. S&D Pharma 50
Conclusions 51
Bibliography 51