A NEW TREND OF SCM - RTSCM

摘要

SCM (Supply Chain Management) is defined as an inter-linked resources and activities needed to create and deliver products and services to customers, which can reduce the conflictions among enterprises in the circulating channel. With the widely use of Internet, RTSCs combine the telecommunications' power with old business structures and processes to eliminate old corporate boundaries and geographical restrictions. So RTSCM (Real Time Supply Chain Management) becomes a new trend of SCM, and represent the largest application of business-to-business (B2B) E-commerce. In this paper we compare the traditional SCM with RTSCM, analyze its essential elements and operational steps. At last, according to the relative cases, we apply the tools of LP (Linear Programming) and CP (Constraint Programming) to study how to realize and optimize RTSCM.