Research on the Impacts of Tightly Coupled Supply Chain Business Process and Its Improvement

The importance of suited business process and information flow to supply chain was set forth, then, this paper analyzed the impacts of tightly coupled business process on the whole performance of supply chain through a simple example about a supplier and a vendor, two as-is models of original business processes were improved a new and integrated to-be model was provided, and the effect of improvement was also descripted. Next, business process reengineering on the basis of improvement of information controlling flow was discussed.