Papers and Reports:
H. Cho, B.
Kulvatunyou, H. Jeong, A. Jones: Using business process specifications
and
agents to integrate a scenario-driven supply chain.
A supply
chain scenario is presented, which uses an integrating framework for
supply
chain operations among trading partners in a B2B environment using the
concepts
of business process specifications and agent technology. The behaviour
of the
enterprise applications of each partner is modelled as agent concepts
by using
Petri-nets. The business system of each partner is separated into a
private and
a public component where the collaboration between the partners is
handled by
the public parts. The paper focuses on the request for quote
interactions in a
three stage B2B environment (Customer – Manufacturer – Supplier) and
does not
address any of the other required B2B activities. The workflow of the
supply
chain planning process is presented in some details. An implementation
of the integration
framework shows the use of the different technologies (agent based
Petri-net
and modelling of business process specifications using UML) and their
relations.
The authors
see these concepts and models as a starting point for the formalisation
of a
structured approach for B2B supply chain integration and implementation.
Intern.
Journal of CIM, Vol. 17, Nr. 6, pp 546-560