The Research on Manufacturing Enterprise's Value Chain in E-Business

This paper analyzes the manufacturing enterprise's value chain according to two clues, one was based on enterprise value chain, which included: Michael E. Porter's enterprise value chain-value chain in e-business-virtual value chain; and another one was based on industry value chain, which included: Michael E. Porter's industry value chain-industry value chain in e-business-value net. By analyzing the evolution of the manufacturing enterprise's value chain, it was pointed out that in e-business era the manufacturing enterprise should learn the theories of physical value chain and virtual value chain which are now being developed, and because of specialization and cooperation virtual value chain was developed into value net, and value net was changed with dynamic cooperation. Enterprises must pay closely attention to these changes and use new value chain theories to win the competition advantage.