Collaborative Supply Chain Management Based on Web Service
Xu Qi · Jisuanji yingyong yanjiu · 2003
In order to reduce the cost,build rapidly business strategy and find new market,supply chain management solutions must take into account the collaborative manner.Web service are defined by their service describe of publication and discovery and binding to communicate with other Web service.We present an architecture that integrates Agent with Web service to achieve agile and flexible management on the supply chain.In this architecture,workflow processes are defined by configuration workflow specifications from the user.The software Agents are hired to fulfill the specified workflow tasks and also enhance the performance of Web service.The result is that Agents are able to mobile,download,duplicate and reconfigure in the system to achieve the reuse of Agents and obtain the information with more in time and convenient from Web service.