Informatics Publishing Limited

Hsien-Yu Lee ¹, Nai-Jian Wang ²

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei-10607, TW
2 Dept. of Software Development, E-Commerce Division, Formosa Technologies Corp., Taipei-10574, TW

Abstract

Corporations encounter several challenges when they adopt global logistic system in their producing and selling model. One of the most common concerns is how to efficiently share information among members in supply chain. The key solution for this problem is to ensure the accuracy of the purchasing, trading and supply data and to be able to integrate them.
Nowadays, business competition has became more globally and been reaching its climax. The development of information technology and management techniques is also in a tremendous pace. Under the circumstances, business are provided as many opportunities as they have never seen before, but at the same time, they also face unprecedented challenges. In order to be more competitive, corporations must not only be able to coordinate with upstream providers, but also have to adequately allocate their internal resources.
In the development of B2B market, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and E-Commerce have been hot topics for a long time. However, there are some issues deserve researchers making more efforts and discussion as well. How to integrate supply chain system among corporations to obtain low inventory and automatic trade is one of them. Obviously, only when E-MarketPlace is structured and integrated with internal ERP, combining with resources from upstream providers and partners, companies can really benefit from resource sharing and enter into B2B or B2C E-Commerce system.
This system is designed and implemented from techniques associated with Java, creating an B2B E-MarketPlace platform and applying it for cross-industries purpose. From petrochemical raw materials, plastic, textile, electronic material, machinery, power generation, education to bio-chemistry, information and environmental technology, including 3,000s different industries, more than 13,000 suppliers, 9300 vendors and 7700 e-invoice members share this platform. Users can choose to operate through platform functions as they need or combine with partners' ERP through data exchange to create low cost and rapid match which are beneficial to the companies. Moreover, current users also can take advantages from the E-MarketPlace mechanism to reinforce their information system.

Keywords

B2B, E-MarketPlace, E-Purchasing and Management System for Supply Chain, E-Contracting, E-Invoice, Java.

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Hsien-Yu Lee ¹, Nai-Jian Wang ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei-10607, TW

Abstract

Ones always explore and investigate either the present or future of web issues, i.e. web evolution, web 2.0, web service, web engineering, the optimization of web programming techniques and the latest one, cloud computing etc. They all work hard to try proposing the well framework, definition, and protocol for these issues. As a matter of fact, the perfect ones of these issues don't exist yet according to our surveys. As for Web Vision, a rather new field of research since 2013, is however not yet built in a very systematic way. We explore and apply it because web vision exposes designers, programmers, strategists and entrepreneurs to the new ideas and trends that are revolutionizing business and the world. In this paper, we present how methods of web technologies/cloud computing and models of web engineering can be used for hosting the platform with the implementation results and development experience. This paper also describes various web application frameworks and related emerging technologies pertinent to the platform from both a technical and business perspective. In summary, we propose the development disciplines to construct e-enterprise engineering by using our development of computerization experience and business rules for hosting the present-generation enterprise service platform which has been proven to be successful for assisting the enterprise to do business and deliver more value services on the cloud-computing platform.

Keywords

Cloud Computing, Web Engineering, Web Vision, Web Evolution, Web Programming, Virtual Machine.

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Hsien-Yu Lee ¹, Nai-Jian Wang ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei-10607, TW

Abstract

Actually traditional web applications are developed in random order without any systematic approach. One can say that web applications are developed in an adhoc manner. There are lots of problem in traditional web application. Now to solve the all traditional problems there is a need of engineered development of web applications. Web Engineering, a rather new field of research, is however not yet explored in a very systematic way. They are not well documented and very difficult to maintain. In this paper, we present how methods of web frameworks/technologies and models of software engineering can be used for Web engineering with the implementation results. We show that the real challenge in web engineering is to adapt project plans and management to constant change of the underlying technology. This paper also describes various web application frameworks and related emerging technologies pertinent to the web engineering from a technical perspective. One said that web engineering should be understood as a framework to provide a continuous service, not a single, well-defined project. Obviously, it's difficult because of web technologies evolution such as web 2.0, mobile devices popular, cloud computing concept etc. In summary, we propose the development disciplines for web engineering according to our development of computerization experience and business rules.

Keywords

Web Engineering, Web Framework, Web 2.0, Web Service, E-Business, Programming Language.

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