On Demand Integration of Dynamic Supply Chain Application Based on Semantic Service Oriented Architecture
Juanqiong Gou, Xi Yang, Wei Dai · 2007
Dynamic Supply Chain is flexible to support various needs of enterprises. The integration and collaboration of enterprise systems offer significant challenges, while the problem is the difficulty for the integration of distributed heterogeneous information system as the partnership changes. The emerging technologies of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Semantic Web offer promising solutions by enhancing the reusability and interoperability of different systems and promoting cooperation among business partners. This paper analyzes the requirements for On-Demand Integration of supply chain applications and discusses various integration solutions and their challenges. The analysis indicates that an approach combining the Semantic Grid and SOA technologies will be an appropriate solution. Therefore, a generic conceptual architecture for the integration by using Semantic Grid enabled SOA approach is proposed. An example scenario is presented to show a potential application of this architecture with a prototype adopting the WSMX (Web Service Modeling Execution Environment) as the basis of its implementation and deployment.