Logistics Management Analysis for the Wafer Foundry Supply Chain

The IC foundry business had been remarkably developed for the past decade in Taiwan. The well-known IC design house, the wafer fabrication industries, and the IC packaging/testing business had together formed a contiguous supply chain form material to system. Logistic management of wafers is the key linkage in the IC foundry supply chain. The objectives of this paper include the issues review and solution requirements analysis for the global wafer logistics. The model-driven business transformation, an approach uses formal models to explicitly define the structure and behavior of a business, is applied for the review and analysis process. Specific requirements for the wafer logistic management solutions are proposed. Development of this research is crucial for the solution integration of information and logistic management in IC foundry business.