Network-based just-in-time material shortage and supply information exchange system and method

A network-based JIT material shortage and supply information exchange system for use to allow a manufacturer and a supplier to exchange information about the manufacturer's current condition of material shortage and relevant data in an online manner via a server linked via a network system to a first-party workstation on the supplier side and a second-party workstation on the manufacturer side;

• the network-based JIT material shortage and supply information exchange system comprising:
• a network system;
• a server, which is linked to the network system, and which is installed with a supply chain management information system which can serve up at least one Material-Shortage Status Inquiry Web page and one Specific Rate Reserved Inventory Stock Web page;
• at least one first-party workstation, which is installed on the supplier side, and which is linkable via the network system to the inventory management system on the server;
• and
• at least one second-party workstation, which is installed on the manufacturer side, and which is linkable via the network system to the inventory management system on the server;
• wherein
• the manufacturer can link the second-party workstation via the network system to the supply chain management information system on the server and upload the information about the manufacturer's current condition of material shortage and relevant data via the network system to the supply chain management information system on the server;
• and wherein
• the supplier can link the first-party workstation via the network system to the supply chain management information system on the server to browse the Material-Shortage Status Inquiry Web page and thereby browse the information about the manufacturer's current condition of material shortage and relevant data;
• and when there is a change in the supplier's current inventory stock of material, the supplier can use the Specific Rate Reserved Inventory Stock Web page to input relevant data to cause the supply chain management information system to compute for the percentage of reserved amount of supply based on the manufacturer's current condition of material shortage and the supplier's current inventory stock of material for reference by the manufacturer.