122 Wafer Logistics Information System for Integrated Circuit Foundry Supply Chain Management

The semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) foundry business had been remarkably developed for the past decade in Taiwan. The IC design house, wafer fabrication industries, and IC packaging/testing business had together formed a contiguous supply chain form material to system. Logistics management of the wafer is the key linkage in the IC foundry supply chain. The objectives of this paper include the system analysis, design and development for the information management system of global wafer logistics. The business operation model for the wafer logistics management is studied and the platform-independent solution architecture is constructed. Results of this research can provide the effectiveness and efficiency improvement in wafer logistics management of the IC foundry supply chain.