Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology
Intermediaries, as the important role in supply chain, perform a series of functions, including assisting sellers in determining product offerings, helping buyers reduce the search cost and search time, and shipping, distributing and storing for products. However, with the advent of internet, there...
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| description | Intermediaries, as the important role in supply chain, perform a series of functions, including assisting sellers in determining product offerings, helping buyers reduce the search cost and search time, and shipping, distributing and storing for products. However, with the advent of internet, there are IT platforms based on e-commerce and cloud manufacturing, to act as intermediary in supply chain. For example, Amazon.com, FMG.com and Alibaba, the popular e-marketplaces, have the function to match buyers and sellers and facilitate the transactions, which has negative effects on the roles and functions of intermediaries. Based on the advanced technology, “i5 system” created by SYMG (a Chinese corporation) and CAPP-4-SMEs project also challenge the roles and functions of intermediaries. Nevertheless, these IT platforms also face with issues, such as trust fraud and intellectual property protection. |
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| spelling | nottingham-369272017-10-12T21:27:30Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36927/ Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology NIU, QING Intermediaries, as the important role in supply chain, perform a series of functions, including assisting sellers in determining product offerings, helping buyers reduce the search cost and search time, and shipping, distributing and storing for products. However, with the advent of internet, there are IT platforms based on e-commerce and cloud manufacturing, to act as intermediary in supply chain. For example, Amazon.com, FMG.com and Alibaba, the popular e-marketplaces, have the function to match buyers and sellers and facilitate the transactions, which has negative effects on the roles and functions of intermediaries. Based on the advanced technology, “i5 system” created by SYMG (a Chinese corporation) and CAPP-4-SMEs project also challenge the roles and functions of intermediaries. Nevertheless, these IT platforms also face with issues, such as trust fraud and intellectual property protection. 2016-09-15 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36927/1/Analysis%20of%20How%20the%20Intermediary%20Role%20Will%20Change%20in%20the%20Future%20with%20Globalization%20and%20the%20Increasing%20Power%20of%20Spread%20of%20IT%2C%20Particularly%20Cloud%20Based%20Technology.pdf NIU, QING (2016) Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] Key words: supply chain intermediary IT platforms e-commerce cloud manufacturing |
| spellingShingle | Key words: supply chain intermediary IT platforms e-commerce cloud manufacturing NIU, QING Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology |
| title | Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology |
| title_full | Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology |
| title_fullStr | Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology |
| title_short | Analysis of How the Intermediary Role Will Change in the Future with Globalization and the Increasing Power of Spread of IT, Particularly Cloud Based Technology |
| title_sort | analysis of how the intermediary role will change in the future with globalization and the increasing power of spread of it, particularly cloud based technology |
| topic | Key words: supply chain intermediary IT platforms e-commerce cloud manufacturing |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36927/ |