Improving Supply Chain Operations performance by using a collaborative platform based on a Service Oriented Architecture

Rubén Darío Franco, Ángel Ortiz Bas, Víctor Anaya, Rosa Navarro

2005

Abstract

Every new technology promises to solve a lot of problems inside companies and to achieve unforeseen performance improvements. Nowadays, Service-Oriented Architectures begin to be promoted as new balsam where companies may realize their visions and put all their new strategies in practice. Initially focused on intra-organizational integration efforts, they begin to be used when supporting inter-organizational business processes engineering in networked organizations. Although these kinds of initiatives in most of cases are lead by major companies, the INPREX project (Spanish acronym for Inter-operability in Extended Processes), here presented falls out this category. By contrast, this is an undergoing initiative leaded by a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) and founded by a local government in Spain. In this work, we introduce the IDIERE Platform which has been designed for supporting three major requirements of networked enterprises: openness, flexibility and dynamism when deploying and executing distributed business processes.

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in Harvard Style

Darío Franco R., Ortiz Bas Á., Anaya V. and Navarro R. (2005). Improving Supply Chain Operations performance by using a collaborative platform based on a Service Oriented Architecture . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2005) ISBN 972-8865-21-X, pages 56-65. DOI: 10.5220/0002576300560065


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csac05,
author={Rubén Darío Franco and Ángel Ortiz Bas and Víctor Anaya and Rosa Navarro},
title={Improving Supply Chain Operations performance by using a collaborative platform based on a Service Oriented Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={56-65},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002576300560065},
isbn={972-8865-21-X},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Computer Supported Activity Coordination - Volume 1: CSAC, (ICEIS 2005)
TI - Improving Supply Chain Operations performance by using a collaborative platform based on a Service Oriented Architecture
SN - 972-8865-21-X
AU - Darío Franco R.
AU - Ortiz Bas Á.
AU - Anaya V.
AU - Navarro R.
PY - 2005
SP - 56
EP - 65
DO - 10.5220/0002576300560065