A supply-chain-oriented business process reengineering strategy for on-demand new product development

  • Authors:
  • Chun-Hsien Chen;Wei Yan;Kuohsiang Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore.;Logistics Engineering School, Shanghai Maritime University, 1550 Pudong Dadao, Shanghai 200135, PR China.;Department of Industrial Design, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, 701 Tainan, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Various strategies of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) have been developed to improve companies' entire business process. From a more systematic viewpoint, these systems should be further organised under a unified value-added process, which covers all activities of a supply chain. Based on this understanding, a so-called business process reengineering system (BPRS) was proposed and developed. The BPRS consists of three modules, viz. product conceptualisation module using general sorting and repertory grids, supply chain formation module using the Hopfield neural network, and BPR decision-making module using a location-capacity-based strategy. A case study on cellular phone design was used for system validation.