面向Web服务的供应链协同管理

Collaborative Supply Chain Management Based on Web Service

在全球市场环境中,供应链企业是合作与竞争并存的关系。为了降低成本,快速部署企业营运方案并及时开拓新的商机,供应链管理必须进行协同管理。Web服务是企业间通过Web访问企业业务功能的技术。它通过发布、发现服务描述、绑定服务,为各企业提供便利的信息服务。研究应用软件Agent实现面向Web服务的供应链工作流协同管理。通过应用工作流技术进行企业过程定义,应用软件Agent实时地执行工作流任务及应用SOAP进行XML消息传递,探讨了基于Agent的Web服务实现新框架,为有效地提高供应链的柔性和敏捷性,快速地获得跨企业的服务提供了一个新的技术支持。

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. 