ASia V-Chain,Advanced Strategies and Tools for Virtual Supply Chain Management in Asian environment,ASIA IT&C Programme GENERAL AIMS The European Commission (EC) launched the Asia IT&C Programme in 1999 in order to: co-finance mutually beneficial partnerships in ICT between Europe and Asia improve the quality of Europe-Asia partnerships link the two regions in the search for innovative and compatible solutions in IT&C AREAS OF ACTIVITY - Society - e-Commerce - Education - Transport - Health - Agricolture - Tourism - i-Manufacturing,ASIA V-CHAIN Project Applicant: University of Udine Department of Electronic, Managerial and Mechanical Engineering Unit co-ordinator: Prof. Alberto Felice De Toni (Project manager) European partner: Universidad Politcnica de Valencia Department of Business Organisation, Financial Economy & Accounting Unit co-ordinator: Prof. Angel Ortiz Bas Asian partner: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics Unit co-ordinator: Prof. Jeff Hoi-yan Yeung, Prof. Xiande Zhao,ASIA V-CHAIN Project Hong Kong Team,Jeff Yeung CUHK Xiande Zhao CUHK 徐學軍教授 華南理工大學 Xie Jinxing 清華大學 Zhao Xiaobo 清華大學,General Aims facilitating the access of Asian companies to EU advanced and innovative organisational methodologies and ICT solutions designed for a more efficient management of industrial processes (negotiation, planning, scheduling, delivery etc.) and flows (materials, information, etc.). providing information and tools for helping Asian companies to implement innovative approaches in the field of Supply Chain Management focussing on upstream physical, information and economic values flows, with particular reference to complex industrial situations, such as Inter-firm Networks.,V-CHAIN Project: MAIN OBJECTIVES Develop a framework (methodology, architecture, reference model and technologies) for supply chain management in a Virtual Enterprise context Analyse and provide means and a migration path to move from an Extended Enterprise AS-IS state to a Virtual Enterprise TO-BE state,V-CHAIN Project: MAIN OBJECTIVES Develop algorithms that allow to define global objectives (supply chain-wide) based on constraints of all involved actors Analyse and apply recent technological innovation ICT trends to solve VE problems and develop a supporting technological framework,V-CHAIN Project: CONSORTIUM,Scientific Partners,Polytechnic of Valencia,Dynamit Nobel (Fords supplier),National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (France),Industrial Partners,Ford Spain,Consulting companies,DMR Cosulting (project coordinator),Innova,Other partners,Exel (logistic operator),Vitria (software house),Francisco Segura (Fords supplier),Johnson Controls (Fords supplier),Aprilia,University of Udine,V-CHAIN Project: CONTEXT,Supply Chain Management Relationships between assembly company and suppliers,Suppliers,Customers,V-CHAIN Project: definition of EXTENDED ENTERPRISE,An Extended Enterprise is a dominant company which extends its boundaries by building partnerships with others in its supply chain, improving its customers value proposition to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage,V-CHAIN Project: definition of VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE,A Virtual Enterprise is a single business entity, compounded by companies that share capitals and maintain dynamic and agile relationships, in order to enhance its customers value proposition and timely create and exploit complex market opportunities,END CUSTOMER,Single enterprise boundaries,Virtual enterprise boundary,OEM / Assembler,Environment,OPS/OP,A joint strategy,VE demands integrating not only capitals within partners but also the strategic decisions. Thus, the partners fully share their capitals to create the named business entity in order to better define and establish strategic, tactic and operational goals into the virtual entity.,HC = Human Capital OC = Operational Capital KC = Knowledge Capital TC = Technological Capital SC = Structural Capital FC = Financial Capital RC = Relationship Capital S = Strategy,VE,BUSINESS DIMENSION,EE,Basic EE,Advanced EE,Recommended Migration Space,Complete Migration Space,V-CHAIN Project: MIGRATION PATH,ICT DIMENSION,The four supply chain integration levels,A company cannot seek the level of Visibility in a SC without having reached before the one of Communication, and so on with all the rest of the levels in this hierarchy.,Source: DMR Consulting,WIN LOSE / LOSE - WIN,WIN - WIN,Stage 1 Extended Enterprise (Basic / Advanced),Stage 2 Acknowledged Virtual Enterprise,Stage 3 Communicating Virtual Enterprise,Stage 4 Visible Virtual Enterprise,Stage 5 Synchronised Virtual Enterprise,Stage 6 Collaborative Virtual Enterprise,Understanding the six migration stages,S1 - The extended enterprise (basic and advanced): This stage represents the initial step. S2 The acknowledged virtu