Knowledge-based Supply Chain Management Research

Supply-chain and Knowledge Management(KM) have become hot spots in recent research area. Many scholars have done a lot of research on each aspect, but few of them have combined the two poits together. In practice,the competition among enterprises has turned into competition among supply chains,and knowledge has become an important resource. How to integrate the knowledge resource in supply-chain becomes the problem that every enterprise to deal with.So it is very important to do research in this problem.This paper explains the concept of knowledge in supply-chain from the view of enterprise-knowledge, analyses the necessity and feasibility of KM in supply-chain, divides it into enterprise-level KM and supply-chain-level KM and maily concentrates on the second level.There are plenty of knowledge resource in supply-chain. To make good use of the knowledge which has belonged to different interest entities, the paper introduces the concept of supply-chain core competence and discusses its interact with supply-chain KM ,then builds a model of integrated supply-chain KM .The supply-chain should integrate all parts of KM to improve the supply-chain core competence and optimize supply-chain KM system. A supply-chain KM system consists of KM techniques ,integrated KM process, and some organizational measures. The KM process maily includes integrated knowledge mining, knowledge transmission and communion, also knowledge innovation which promoting core competence innovation. Finally supply-chain should establish a KM performance evaluation system.The original ideas of the paper are as follows: explicating the concept of core competence from the rage of enterprise to supply-chain, putting forward the concept of supply-chain core competence, building the house-like supply-chain KM model, analysing the process of knowledge transforming in knowledge innovation, explainining its impetus effect to supply-chain core competence innovation. All these not only provide new perspectives for studying in KM, but also offers new ways of development for enterprises in our country to face the international competition and strengthen their competence.