Using XML nets and grid services to support SCOR

A method framework for SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference model) was designed. SCOR contains three levels of process details: using UML to model the process in level 1 and the domain ontology, using XML Nets, a kind of high level Petri Nets to model the process categories in level 2 and to assemble the XML Nets fragments according to the request ldquoconfigured-to-orderrdquo, and using Xml Nets to model the elements of the processes in level 3 and the performance metrics. The Grid services technology was chosen for implementation of the processes to achieve the universality, configurability and interoperability on heterogeneous and distributed systems.