「供應鏈」有別於傳統單一製造商、供應商之概念，因製造商與供應商之間不只是上下游關係，而是一個整體關係，透過供應鏈，不但可節省設計時間、運動時間配遷成及改善品質，更能增加總體利潤。緊急訂單在供應鏈環境中，是一個經常發生的問題，但是過去文獻上卻一直沒有系統性方法，來解決緊訂單之評估模式，計算出緊急訂單對供應鏈生產系統所產生的影響成本，進行報酬與影響成本的比較，以提供決策階層作為緊急訂單承接方法比較，這三方法分別為：(1)完全拒絕承托緊急訂單法、(2)完全承接緊急訂單法、(3)隨機接緊急訂單法。模擬結果顯示，本研所發展之評估模式明顯優於其它三種承接方法。

Urgent demands from customers, known as rush orders, often occur in industries. However, most existing studies seldom discuss the economical justification of accepting such orders. In this paper, a method is proposed to decide whether or not an arriving rush order should be accepted in a supply chain environment. In this method, a reward of accepting the rush order is compared with an extra cost generated by other affected order caused by accepting the rush order in the supply chain. If the reward is greater than or equal to the extra cost, the rush order is accepted. Otherwise, the rush order is rejected. In order to verify this proposed method, three non-controlled order acceptance methods: (1) rejecting all rush orders, (2) accepting all rush orders and (3) randomly accepting rush orders are used to compare with this proposed method on the criterion of total profit via computer simulation. The results show the proposed method outperforms these three non-controlled order acceptance methods.