Web Services based Collaborative B2B e-commerce in the Oil Industry.
John V. Gialelis, Dimitris Karadimas, Petros Chondros, Athanasios P. Kalogeras, Stavros Koubias, Dimitrios N. Serpanos · 2008
Collaborative B2B e-commerce provides enterprises with the necessary level of flexibility and efficiency to retain competitiveness under the increasingly turbulent business environment. XML-based frameworks may be utilized by enterprises to integrate enterprise level applications to provide B2B e-commerce without, though seamlessly integrating inter-enterprise processes with intra-enterprise processes to provide collaborative B2B e-commerce. This paper presents an innovative approach towards collaborative B2B e-commerce by utilizing the RosettaNet emerging standard in combination with Service Oriented Architecture and semantically enriched information in order to seamlessly integrate the inter-enterprise (public) and intra-enterprise (private) processes. An implementation of a collaborative B2B e-commerce business model in the oil industry is given as a use case example.