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With the global economy in flux, the tens of thousands of manufacturers in Taiwan must be extremely competitive in order to survive shortening product life cycles, narrow market launch windows and the need to quickly establish market niches.

Taiwan’s businesses are also faced with the challenge of having to constantly transform themselves to compete. In the past Taiwan’s businesses have competed in the world market with their advantages in manufacturing. This then became an advantage in research and development, with the challenge today being the creation of a brand advantage; at the same time for the business to grow diversification of business, vertical integration and different types of takeovers/mergers are also part of the arsenal. The larger a business becomes, the more importance investors attach to short-term benefits. This means the pace of adjustments in corporate strategy must accelerate as well, increasing the reliance on IT systems.

A new kind of pressure now exists for the manufacturing industry today. If a business wishes to dominate the market, proper use of IT tools is the only way. Even IT tools are changing by the day. A business must respond to changes in the market while linking their strategy closely to their IT tools in order to achieve maximum performance.

The rapidly changing consumer market is challenging the manufacturing industry’s supply chain management ability.
　Generally speaking, the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry are in three areas: design, manufacturing and supply chain. With design, when a manufacturer receives a product concept from the customer, they need to complete the product’s design in the shortest amount of time and achieve the target time-to-market. With manufacturing, once a product has been designed the factory must ready all the production conditions within a set amount of time to deliver value in terms of time-to-volume; the final aspect is supply chain integration. The manufacturer must take responsibility for linking together the entire supply chain. This way once a customer has placed an order they can have the product made and shipped as quickly as possible, establishing their advantage in time-to-end-user.
Looking at the IT life-cycle management system requirements of a manufacturer the stability of the system is the number one priority. Its importance may even surpass that of system performance. It may look simple to make the system operate reliably and give error-free performance of existing functions but this is in fact quite a difficult issue; only when there is adequate system stability can more performance in terms of additional functions and speed be pursued. Lower in priority than stability and performance is the information security management mechanism. The mechanism can be further sub-divided into the internal and external. Internal deals mainly with control of access privileges while external guards against viruses and hacker intrusions.