Resumen de Information Technology for Thai Leather SME Development
Siriporn Chirasirimongkol, Wichian Chutimaskul
The Thai leather small and medium enterprise (SME) development has reached its state of high standard and quality in lowto-medium global market. The necessity of skill-workers, raw materials, and eBusiness knowledge makes this business grow. However, the Thai leather products cannot compete with the world-brand name because of the shortage of leather fashion designers and experts. The Thai government therefore establishes the strategy for supporting Thai industry competitiveness, which is divided into five areas. They are food, fashion, vehicle and spare parts, tourism, and software. The leather business is in a fashion group. Many agencies, e.g. the Department of Industry Promotion, the Ministry of Industry, the Leather Industry Association, Thai Leather and Shoes Association, and the Department of Export Promotion, the Ministry of Commerce collaborate together to promote and support small and medium enterprise (SME) and leather business development. Many impact factors, such as skill-worker, leather designer and expert, scientist and engineer, marketing, leather technology, raw material, and funding need to be examined. By using information technology (IT), it is easy to support datainformation-knowledge for leather SME development. This paper therefore addresses the way of using IT for Thai leather SME to gain the competitive advantages and valueadded according to Prof. Michael E. Porter’s principle. The use of information on-demand, enterprise collaborative technology, leather enterprise content management, interoperability, and supply chain management is to support Thai leather SME development and to increase the global market.
