A Web-based data extraction system for supply chain management using SAP R/3

Author

Chen, Ruey-Shun ; Wang, Hsien-Chih ; Wang, Chieh-Min

Author_Institution

Institue of Inf. Manage., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2557

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype of logistics flows and an information extraction system between customers and vendors using the World Wide Web (WWW) and XML with SAP R/3 programming technology (ABAP/4 Language). Three issues are considered: (I) to resolve the SAP SAPLPD performance issue existing in multi-byte character print with SAPWIN by developing an HTML layout set for the report printout; (2) to support business process improvement for customer services, logistics, planning and manufacturing through an XML data interface embedded in the software solutions and; (3) to provide a reliable and scalable information technology infrastructure which could fulfill the requirements of data transparency and data consistency. We present an open architecture of the data extraction method. It can be used to realise data transparency and data consistency for a supply chain. Enterprise within a multidatabase can improve the performance of information flows. It can solve the data printing problem in many types of layout set to meet the demands of the enterprise

Keywords

business data processing; data integrity; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; logistics data processing; management information systems; manufacturing resources planning; marketing data processing; HTML layout set; SAP R/3; SAPWIN; Web-based data extraction system; World Wide Web; XML; XML data interface; customer services; customers; data consistency; data transparency; information extraction system; logistics flows; manufacturing; multi-byte character print; planning; report printout; software solutions; supply chain management; vendors; Customer service; Data mining; HTML; Logistics; Process planning; Prototypes; Supply chain management; Web sites; World Wide Web; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2001.972948

Filename

972948