The Evaluation of Advantageous Industries and the Analysis of Their Global Logistics Operations - Case Study of Precision Machine Tool Industry

摘要

This research studies the development and operations of advantageous industries' logistics hubs in Taiwan. Based on a comprehensive analysis of related data, we quantitatively and objectively identify Taiwan industries on a scale from low to high advantages. The advantage ranking, combined with economic production data and other global indicators, enables us to place the industries into categories. Based on the categories of advantageous industries, selective companies are targeted and surveyed to depict their current and improved operations of global logistics and distribution hubs. The systems underlying these logistics/distribution hubs are modelled using INCOME, an integrated system analysis tool designed to capture, describe, and analyze business processes with various views. Given the set of business process models, we provide an approach for industries to rapidly implement best logistics practice for global trades. The models enable companies to rapidly configure and test multiple hub models for disaggregated global production and distribution chains. We use the precision machine tool industry as the case example to demonstrate the proposed methodology.