Abstract

With the growth of the Internet, more and more companies are dedicated to e-business. Supply chain management has been deemed as one of the useful tools for businesses to promote their competitiveness, and to build up their trust relationship with up and down stream businesses. In order to page link the whole value chain, information technology (IT) application has already been essential for enterprises. This study adopts a database-oriented approach and uses a server side program, Java Servlets, to manage a web-based inventory management system. The idea is to make information readily and easily available to people who are interested in the data. Once a company integrates the all-internal systems, it can further combine its up and down stream businesses. In conclusion, enterprises must converge enterprise resource planning (ERP), electronic supply chain management (E-SCM), and customer relationship management (CRM) systems to win competitive advantage. Usually, it may take couple of years to build an integrated ERP system and E-SCM system. Information technology provides a more efficient way to build the system