Leveraging Cloud Computing to Enhance Supply Chain Management in Automobile Industry

To enhance interoperability between stakeholders and improve efficiency of Supply Chain Management (SCM) is one of the key issues that need to be addressed in automobile industry. On the other hand, Cloud Computing has developed from being a gifted commerce idea to one of the top geared sector of the Information Technology. This paper analyzes the state-of-art of the IT condition in supply chain management of automobile industry and proposes a cloud computing based IT reference architecture for enterprises to build the integrated SCM solutions.