A Web service-based framework for supply chain management

This paper proposes a framework based on Web service to organize the corporation nodes on supply chain. We have defined a strategy for aggregating the agents, including the normal agent and the mobile agent, into the Web service architecture and the functionalities for them to control the business conducts. We also devise a UDDI ranking frame based on analysis of supply chain activities. In this frame, Web service-oriented technologies and protocols are deployed for modeling, managing and executing business-oriented functionalities. We focus on the efficient integration of supply chain as key points to harmonize these technologies. Agent-orientation concepts and technologies are applied to SCM construction and interaction patterns.