The latest tendency of SCM patents utilizing the information technologies

Author

Hiroshi, Murayama

Author_Institution

Intellectural Property Div., Nippon Steel Corp., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

15-18 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

317

Abstract

Investigates patents on information technology-based SCM (supply chain management), analyzes the technical trends involved, and summarizes the problems to be solved for the future development of SCM. The analysis results of these SCM patents indicates, there are many SCM patents related to the manufacture of products, physical distribution of parts and members in stock, inventory of products and physical distribution of products, and there are many information technology patents related to production schedule change cycle time reduction, purchased material ordering and delivery synchronization, chain task speed synchronization, information sharing and visualization, and customer order delivery date immediate reply simulation.

Keywords

goods distribution; patents; production control; stock control; chain task speed synchronization; customer order delivery date; delivery synchronization; information sharing; information technologies; information technology-based management techniques; inventory; material ordering; parts distribution; patents; production schedule change cycle time reduction; supply chain management; Business; Information analysis; Information technology; Job shop scheduling; Lead time reduction; Manufacturing; Production systems; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Antibes-Juan les Pins, France

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7241-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2001.997701

Filename

997701