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Applying the ant colony algorithm to select cooperative partners for virtual enterprise doesn't need any artificial intervention. On the contrary, it can find the best scheme which satisfy the constraints intelligently through the interaction of indicators. In this paper, social reputation of companies is considered as a implicit index, which conforms to requirements of contemporary business. At the...
As a new mode of Internet applications, cloud computing will become the future access to the dominant way of services and information. In cloud computing environment is more suitable for virtual enterprise, it is more powerful. In order to study how to measure Agility of Cloud-based Virtual Enterprise (CVE), the relationship between CVE and its member is analyzed first. Base on it, a new method using...
Nearly all SME companies regard their collaboration as a very important part of their success. The measures for collaboration have shown that collaboration covers many external relationships. The index of extra-organizational collaboration is related to internal IT use for business tasks as well as to technologies for internal and extra-organizational collaboration. Internal IT does not substitute...
In today's ever-changing market, global competition, technology development, customer demands, and decreases of product life cycles push logistics organizations in a supply chain (SC) to shift towards to flexible, robust, autonomy, responsive, and collaborative organization such as a virtual enterprise (VE). Internet and mobile technology support SMEs collaboration to establish VE with an inter-organizational...
The reality in today's business is to compete with dynamic and shorter market opportunities. In order to cope up with such environment, manufacturing firms, especially small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are needed to collaborate with each other for mutual benefits. This collaboration offers process enhancement within the environment of virtual enterprise (VE) and contributes towards sharing...
Metersbonwe is a listed campany specialized in casualwear apparel designing, manufacturing and retailing. This paper analyses how this enterprise integrates its external resource to implement virtual management and how it promotes the management efficiency with information system. This paper also highlights that medium-sized and small private enterprises should make good use of external resource to...
The rise of virtual enterprise brings a shock to traditional accounting assumption. It needs to redefine the space limits of accounting assumptions. In this paper, we discuss the content and extension of accounting assumptions under the virtual enterprise.
Because of massive changes, new business models appear and determines the relocation of new solutions for software design, organization and management. This paper presents aspects related to the business environment under the impact of new information and communication technologies, types of organization and performance and including partners in extended enterprise concept.
Selection of partners is one of the critical problems of Virtual Enterprise. In the paper, according to the deficiency in the existed quantitative methods, a partners-selection of optimization mathematic model is proposed, taking the advantages of simulated annealing algorithm and genetic algorithm, a hybrid genetic algorithm is used to slove the problem of partners selection in Virtual Enterprise...
In response to the global business competitive environment, it is common for several companies to participate in a virtual enterprise (VE) to cooperate and collaborate dynamically to complete a common business opportunity. This paper proposes an agent-based negotiation model to support the partner selection process in a VE. To begin with, the VE partner selection problem is abstracted as a buyer-seller...
In order to achieve a market objective that otherwise could be out of reach, enterprises, which do not have the complete knowledge for developing all the components needed for their products, need to outsource the development of specific parts; in this way a cooperation with other enterprises working in the same industrial sector starts. It is then possible to say that enterprises give rise to a special...
From the present situation of virtual enterprise research, a general description of web market in the Internet environment is made, moreover the concept of web market-based virtual enterprise is proposed. Four types of characteristics of virtual enterprises is analyzed and summarized as well. Feasible ideas are put forward for commercial organizations to carry out operating better in the web markets.
Virtual enterprise is a temporary alliance of enterprises that come together to share skills, core competencies or resources. The members in virtual enterprise need to collaborate in a distributed, dynamic, open and heterogeneous environment. Traditional Access control mechanisms, which serve the single enterprises, are not suitable for virtual enterprise. By incorporating task delegation, trust management...
In the present work we describe the development of a condition based maintenance platform especially shaped for a network of maintenance companies operating on the same assets. The expert system developed in this study, holds the skills of a team of experts who thoroughly know both the monitored system and its maintenance. The company and the network of expertise available were also considered. Indeed,...
To significantly improve the performance of supplier selection model, After analyzing the general approach for this problem, a new solution using analytical hierarchy process (AHP), technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPOSIS) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) is proposed. In AHP, using radic3 scale method, the uniformity is increased, comprising to general. Structure...
In this paper, the concept of ecological supply chain (ESC) and primary design principles of ESC are discussed. And the paper shows that companies can gain economical, social and environmental efficiencies simultaneously from implementing ESC. The organization framework, the operational process, the dynamic durative of virtual enterprise, those are expounded in detail. Evaluation of virtual enterprises...
The agility of inter-organizational process represents the ability of virtual enterprise to respond rapidly to the changing market environment. Many theories and methodologies about inter-organizational process have been developed but the dynamic agility has seldom been addressed. A virtual enterprise whose process has a high dynamic agility will be able to adjust with the changing environment in...
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