Supporting the Execution of Distributed Production Planning Processes with a SOA-Based Platform1
Networked Organizations are seen as a natural evolution for companies focusing on their core competences and outsourcing part of their support activities. This new organizational form requires deploying a sound IT platform in order to properly coordinate the interrelated operations and to manage information flows existing in such collaborative process. In this environment, where a broad and open interoperability space is needed, monolithic integration platforms are not enough for tackling such information systems heterogeneity. Instead of that, Service Oriented Architectures begin to be used as technological support when deploying and supporting such distributed business process management. But, this evolution is not merely a technological issue. SOC also drives to a new way of thinking about the concept of process. Orchestration of distributed autonomous units by means of their services requires a conceptual evolution also. In this work, the Active Entities concept is introduced as an entity which has two integrated dimensions: a business concept and a technological structure. When modelling distributed business processes they can be used as building blocks of more complex applications. We will introduce a distributed planner which orchestrates the services provided by a network of active entities in order to support manufacturing processes. By means of a case study, we will show how it has been used to increase the suppliers’ visibility of OEMs production plans in a small supply chain of a stamping small and medium enterprise.
Internet Manufacturing Networks and Networks flows Business process reengineering Flexible
Rubén Darío FRANCO ángel ORTIZ BAS Rosa NAVARRO Pedro GOMEZ GASQUET
Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering Polytechnical University of Valencia.Spain
国际会议
北京
英文
2007-05-30（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）