Development of a collaborative and event-driven supply chaininformation system using mobile object technology
Huang, E.; Fan-Tien Cheng; Haw-Ching Yang
Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Volume 3, Issue , 1999 Page(s):1776 - 1781 vol.3
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ROBOT.1999.770366
Summary:Information integration of the supply chain for the manufacturing
industry is essential because a competent and promising company needs an
efficient information system to communicate with its customers,
supplies, and partners within the entire supply chain. In this research,
a collaborative and event-driven supply chain information system (SCIS)
is developed by using mobile object technology. The Unified Modeling
Language (UML) is applied to analyze and design the SCIS Framework which
contains two major components: information coordinator component (ICC)
and agent component (AC). The ICC acts as the information integration
manager. It manages all the ACs and establishes proper event channels
for them to exchange information. Each member within the supply chain
needs to possess an AC such that it can utilize the SCIS to exchange
information with the other members. An application example is
constructed and its corresponding system integration and testing
procedure is demonstrated. From this demonstration result, it is
believed that this SCIS framework provides a collaborative,
event-driven, object-oriented, and agent-based infrastructure for the
supply chain members to mutually exchange information efficiently
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