Research on Methods of Services-Oriented Integration for Supply Chain Collaboration

As an implementation of Services Oriented Architectures, Web Services ensure a loosely coupled integration model to allow flexible integration of heterogeneous systems in a variety of domains including business-to-consumer, business-to-business and enterprise application integration. In attempting to account for the integrated solution based on Web Services, the author specifies the concept and the integrated demands of Supply Chain. Next, the integrated concepts and theory of Web Services are illustrated, and the dynamic integration of Supply Chain is further studied with the focus on a typical integrated example. Finally a summary is given of the advantages of Web Services-based integrated architecture.