• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.139-166
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• 2010

The supply chain management (SCM) systems have emerged as strong managerial tools for manufacturing firms in enhancing competitive strength. Despite of large investments in the SCM systems, many companies are not fully realizing the promised benefits from the systems. A review of literature on adoption, implementation and success factor of IOS (inter-organization systems), EDI (electronic data interchange) systems, shows that this issue has been examined from multiple theoretic perspectives. And many researchers have attempted to identify the factors which influence the success of system implementation. However, the existing studies have two drawbacks in revealing the determinants of systems implementation success. First, previous researches raise questions as to the appropriateness of research subjects selected. Most SCM systems are operating in the form of private industrial networks, where the participants of the systems consist of two distinct groups: focus companies and vendors. The focus companies are the primary actors in developing and operating the systems, while vendors are passive participants which are connected to the system in order to supply raw materials and parts to the focus companies. Under the circumstance, there are three ways in selecting the research subjects; focus companies only, vendors only, or two parties grouped together. It is hard to find researches that use the focus companies exclusively as the subjects probably due to the insufficient sample size for statistic analysis. Most researches have been conducted using the data collected from both groups. We argue that the SCM success factors cannot be correctly indentified in this case. The focus companies and the vendors are in different positions in many areas regarding the system implementation: firm size, managerial resources, bargaining power, organizational maturity, and etc. There are no obvious reasons to believe that the success factors of the two groups are identical. Grouping the two groups also raises questions on measuring the system success. The benefits from utilizing the systems may not be commonly distributed to the two groups. One group's benefits might be realized at the expenses of the other group considering the situation where vendors participating in SCM systems are under continuous pressures from the focus companies with respect to prices, quality, and delivery time. Therefore, by combining the system outcomes of both groups we cannot measure the system benefits obtained by each group correctly. Second, the measures of system success adopted in the previous researches have shortcoming in measuring the SCM success. User satisfaction, system utilization, and user attitudes toward the systems are most commonly used success measures in the existing studies. These measures have been developed as proxy variables in the studies of decision support systems (DSS) where the contribution of the systems to the organization performance is very difficult to measure. Unlike the DSS, the SCM systems have more specific goals, such as cost saving, inventory reduction, quality improvement, rapid time, and higher customer service. We maintain that more specific measures can be developed instead of proxy variables in order to measure the system benefits correctly. The purpose of this study is to find the determinants of SCM systems success in the perspective of vendor companies. In developing the research model, we have focused on selecting the success factors appropriate for the vendors through reviewing past researches and on developing more accurate success measures. The variables can be classified into following: technological, organizational, and environmental factors on the basis of TOE (Technology-Organization-Environment) framework. The model consists of three independent variables (competition intensity, top management support, and information system maturity), one mediating variable (collaboration), one moderating variable (government support), and a dependent variable (system success). The systems success measures have been developed to reflect the operational benefits of the SCM systems; improvement in planning and analysis capabilities, faster throughput, cost reduction, task integration, and improved product and customer service. The model has been validated using the survey data collected from 122 vendors participating in the SCM systems in Korea. To test for mediation, one should estimate the hierarchical regression analysis on the collaboration. And moderating effect analysis should estimate the moderated multiple regression, examines the effect of the government support. The result shows that information system maturity and top management support are the most important determinants of SCM system success. Supply chain technologies that standardize data formats and enhance information sharing may be adopted by supply chain leader organization because of the influence of focal company in the private industrial networks in order to streamline transactions and improve inter-organization communication. Specially, the need to develop and sustain an information system maturity will provide the focus and purpose to successfully overcome information system obstacles and resistance to innovation diffusion within the supply chain network organization. The support of top management will help focus efforts toward the realization of inter-organizational benefits and lend credibility to functional managers responsible for its implementation. The active involvement, vision, and direction of high level executives provide the impetus needed to sustain the implementation of SCM. The quality of collaboration relationships also is positively related to outcome variable. Collaboration variable is found to have a mediation effect between on influencing factors and implementation success. Higher levels of inter-organizational collaboration behaviors such as shared planning and flexibility in coordinating activities were found to be strongly linked to the vendors trust in the supply chain network. Government support moderates the effect of the IS maturity, competitive intensity, top management support on collaboration and implementation success of SCM. In general, the vendor companies face substantially greater risks in SCM implementation than the larger companies do because of severe constraints on financial and human resources and limited education on SCM systems. Besides resources, Vendors generally lack computer experience and do not have sufficient internal SCM expertise. For these reasons, government supports may establish requirements for firms doing business with the government or provide incentives to adopt, implementation SCM or practices. Government support provides significant improvements in implementation success of SCM when IS maturity, competitive intensity, top management support and collaboration are low. The environmental characteristic of competition intensity has no direct effect on vendor perspective of SCM system success. But, vendors facing above average competition intensity will have a greater need for changing technology. This suggests that companies trying to implement SCM systems should set up compatible supply chain networks and a high-quality collaboration relationship for implementation and performance.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.605-622
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• 2007

이 연구에서는 동해 울릉분지 북서부와 동부 해역의 상부 제4기 퇴적물의 지화학적 특징, 공간적 및 수직적 분포와 유기물 기원을 규명하기 위해 천부 퇴적물을 이용하여 원소분석, Rock-Eval 열분석 및 유기물 동위원소분석을 실시하였다. TOC, TN 및 TS 분석결과는 울릉분지 북서부 및 동부지역에서 값들의 공간적인 변화는 없지만 MIS 기간에 따른 수직적인 변화는 뚜렷하게 인지된다. 이는 동해의 퇴적환경 및 속성작용들이 해수면 변화에 따라 많은 영향을 받았다는 것을 의미한다. 코어 퇴적물의 분석 결과, TOC/N, TS/TOC, 유기물 동위원소비들(${\delta}^{13}C_{org}$와 ${\delta}^{15}N_{org}$)은 퇴적물 내 유기물이 주로 해성 조류 기원이며, 일반적인 해양 또는 정체 환경에서 퇴적되었음을 지시한다. 또한 TOC/N과 유기물 동위원소 값들(${\delta}^{13}C_{org}$와 ${\delta}^{15}N_{org}$)은 MIS 기간에 따른 변화가 없기 때문에, 동해 울릉분지에서 유기물은 MIS 기간에 상관없이 동일한 기원을 가지고 있다. 그러나 Rock-Eval 열분석 결과는 유기물 기원이 육성 식물이고, 열적 성숙단계가 미성숙단계임을 보여준다. 이러한 원소분석, 동위원소 분석과 열분석 간의 상반된 결과는 대서양, 이베리아 심해 평원 및 지중해 등에서 미성숙 단계 유기물에서도 관찰되었다 따라서 Rock-Eval은 열적으로 미성숙 단계 유기물의 특징을 잘 반영하지 못하는 것으로 추정되기 때문에, Rock-Eval을 이용하여 미성숙 단계 유기물의 특징을 규명할 때 주의가 필요하고 다른 지시자들의 결과를 종합적으로 판단하여야 한다. 즉 근지성 유형의 Cu(-Au)또는 Fe-Mo-W 광상에서는 탈가스화작용 이후에 나타나는 마그마수의 전형적인 특징을 보이는 반면, 다금속 광상과 귀금속 광상은 점이성 또는 원지성 유형으로 지표수(또는 순환수)의 혼입이 우세한 경향을 보인다.감성 마케팅의 사례를 소개하고, 그 가치를 재평가하여, 소비자 입장에서의 감성 마케팅과 디자인의 문제점을 소개하고, 앞으로 감성 디자인과 감성 마케팅의 전략적 차원에서 도입하려는 기업인이나 연구자에게 선행적 사례로 도움을 주는 것에 있다.의 실험결과 또한 control과 비교시 40% 발효주에서는 10배, 45% 고은 발효주에서는 100배 낮은 측정치가 나타났으므로 한약재의 색소성분을 휘발시키는 기술이 요구된다고 본다. 항균성실험에서 항균성 측정은 06 cm paper disk agar diffusion법을 이용하였으며, 43%의 발효주와, 45% 고온 발효주가 항균력이 가장 강력한 0.95 cm의 영향을 나타냈다. 사용한 사용한 Gram 양성, Gram 음성 균주는 Escherichia coli KCCM 11591를 제외하고는 0.8 - 0.95 cm로 항균력이 강했으며, Gram negitive의 Pseudomonas aeruginosa KCTC 1750 에서는 43% 발효주에는 0.95 cm, 45% 고은 발효주에는 0.95 cm의 항균성을 나타냈으며 관능평가에서도 가장 높게 났다. 관능평가에서는 45% 고온 발효주가 가장 높게 나타났으며, 항산화성 실험에 나타난 저온 45%의 갈색도의 측정과는 항산화성에서는 좀 다른 결과를 나타낸다. 그러나 항균성이 가장 높게 나타난 43-45%와 관능평가에서 가장 높게 나타난 45% 고온 발효주를 볼 때 본 연구에서는 고온 발효주 45%가 가장 우수한 전통주로 조사되었다. 발효주를