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The objective of this paper is to analyze supply chain visibility (SCV) which is ill-defined and to provide a comprehensive understanding of SCV from a collaborative decision making perspective. A literature review has been conducted to understand the meanings of the extensively used jargon of supply chain visibility. The characteristics of SCV have been conceptually analyzed and a comprehensive definition...
B2B collaborations today are typically short-term and dynamic, so it is imperative that business processes be quickly and accurately forged. This paper details research that combines both the context-aware (CA) approach and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique to select and rank potential partners in context-enabled B2B collaborations. The approach was validated by a case study. A review of...
Context-awareness (CA) has been applied in different domains, particularly in ubiquitous computing, to provide better value-added services. CA has also been used, albeit sporadically, in business related applications. This paper discusses an on-going research effort in enhancing Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations through context awareness, specifically to support the formation of short and...
Business-to-business (B2B) collaborations are becoming critical to the success and survival of companies. Furthermore, such collaborations are moving from long-term static collaborations to more short-term and flexible collaborations. Such collaborations require connectivity and partnerships to be identified and setup quickly. One such key activity is the identification and selection of partners for...
Supply chain traceability and visibility are key concerns for many companies. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is an enabling technology that allows identification of objects in a fully automated manner via radio waves. The EPCglobal Network is promoting a standardised way for using RFID technology through the use of inexpensive RFID tags and readers, The EPCglobal standard leverages on the pervasive...
Effective exchange and sharing of information across supply chains play a key role in business-to-business integration (B2Bi). Web Services enable companies to collaborate closely with their business partners and gain access to needed information and business logic. However, helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to participate in B2B collaborations and make use of the advances of the service...
There are numerous methods to achieve Web service composition, ranging from semi-automatic to on-the-fly automated processes. This paper proposes an approach to semantic Web service composition based on an AI-planning-like algorithm, which proceeds in a depth-first state-space search manner. Features include name matching, semantic similarity computation, cycle detection and optimization. The system...
Enterprise integration (EI) is critical to the success of a supply chain by enabling the exchange, sharing and retrieval of information across enterprises. To adapt to changes quickly especially in the trend towards adaptive supply chains, efficient and effective B2B interactions and communication capabilities are important for companies, where short and dynamic connections for seamless information...
Traditional ways of collaboration among enterprises are no longer adequate and efficient due to increasingly short cycle times and constantly changing business circumstances. Companies compete as value chains using Business-to-Business (B2B) collaborations based on infocomm technologies, in particular the Internet. Most B2B collaborations are typically long term and static but are pushing towards...
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) model promotes reuse of software Services, achieved through the use of the loose-coupling design concept when assembling systems. In this SOA paradigm, heterogeneity is a key aspect, from platforms to programming languages and transport protocols. One key aspect of reuse, or more importantly, widespread reuse is functionality standardisation in Services. The...
Businesses today form dynamic business alliances to meet short-term business goals. However, in traditional business-to-business integration (B2Bi), the connections are typically long term and static. This paper discusses the potential of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services in overcoming the issues and challenges of dynamic business partnerships. Some outstanding issues and challenges...
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