Research on agile supply chain-oriented flexible ERP
Huang Hui-jun · Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems · 2004
The strong rigidity of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is an important cause for it's relatively low success rate of implementation. In order to improve flexibility of ERP system and support the adaptively gradual progress of business system with enterprises' business change, a flexible ERP framework based on integrated modeling technology, Web Services technology and WorkFlow technology was proposed. This framework aimed to take opening, integration, adaptability and entirely supply chain-oriented as system goal. This framework was constructed by applying model-drive thought, consistent enterprise models would be mapped to Web Services norms at the different levels and respectively connected to different application levels of information system, such as data-layer, business infrastructure, business process, etc. The workflow system based on Web Services Process Describe Language and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) register was core that could integrate low layer business components and support business process adjustment just in time.