An event-based framework for supply chain management

Abstract

Effective management of the supply chain is becoming increasingly important for modern enterprises. A supply chain consists of several sub-processes, internal and external to the enterprise, which are nevertheless rarely executed as planned because deviations due to disruptive events are very common. In this paper we present an event-based framework which is designed to sense events generated by external and internal resources which can lead to undesired deviations in the supply chain. Moreover, it re-synchronizes the whole supply chain process so as to minimize the influence of undesired situations. We implemented and tested this framework with a service based application designed with BPEL 2.0.