An order-adaptive B2B (OA-B2B) is an e-business between order-adaptive manufacturing (OAM) industries and the customers that produce finished goods such as automobiles and electronics. The environments of OA-B2B are summarized as follows: 1) the customers request a lot of engineering change orders (ECOs) to OAM industries during whole product development cycle, and 2) OAM industries have to keep due-date and to show the status of production progress transparently. Therefore, OAM industries should adopt the following three requirements: 1) constructing real-time communication environments with the customers, 2) tracing the status of production progress transparently, and 3) easy-accessing potential markets through the Internet.
This study proposes a methodology of the Modified Axiomatic Design (MAD) for constructing of OA-B2B systems. According to the proposed MAD methodology, the study then constructs a framework of order control system (OCS) that is a component of an OA-B2B system. The proposed MAD methodology consists of the following six steps: 1) analyzing and structuring initial business process (BP), 2) constructing e-business strategies and extracting goals that OA-B2B systems should support, 3) identifying functional requirements (FRs) and business process variables (BPVs), 4) constructing the final BP-model, 5) extracting and refining design parameters (DPs), and 6) constructing the system architecture. The MAD methodology uses object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) techniques, such as unified modeling language (UML), in the step 1, 4, and 5. The proposed framework of OCS consists of the following three layers: 1) client (customers and sales person) layer, 2) application server layer, and 3) database layer. To prove the validity of the proposed framework, the study develops an prototype OCS of a molding shop.
