Web Service-Oriented Architecture for Supply Chain Management

摘要

Supply chain management (SCM) plays a key role in the success of companies in today's highly competitive global business environment. SCM is about managing the flow of goods, services, and information among suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, stores, consumers, and end users. Developing Web-based architecture to support both the process integration and flexibility in supply chain management remains a major research issue. To address this issue, we have developed a new multi-tier Web service-oriented architecture. The building blocks of the new architecture are Web services, developed to encapsulate the details of application logic while providing consistent, secure, auditable, language-, platform-, and location-independent access to a wide variety of software services needed in a supply chain. In this paper, we present the new Web service-oriented architecture.