PEER TO PEER COLLABORATION FOR SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTION AND MANAGEMENT

摘要

A peer to peer collaboration communications network architecture is disclosed wherein a plurality of enterprises (308) effectively communicate with one another to share data across a single network (300). The network architecture simplifies management by partitioning supply chain network enterprises into groups that are independently managed. The network architecture allows for high speed transactions by minimizing distributions of queries upon multiple enterprise networks. At the same time, the network architecture allows for security and privacy concerns of individual enterprises (308) to be addressed within small, localized portions of the overall network architecture. Users of the architecture therefore have the flexibility of choosing between overall speed and localized security modeling. The network architecture comprises a plurality of sub networks that are communicative with one another. Security and privacy concerns are modeled into the sub networks, while the overall architecture takes its shape and robust scalability from the interconnections of the plurality of sub networks.