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Agile Supply Chain Management System Based On Web Services

Posted on:2003-01-05Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:G C XiongFull Text:PDF
GTID:1118360095450731Subject:Aviation Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering
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Agile manufacturing introduces new principles and requirements to supply chain. The Agile Supply Chain that supports the agile manufacturing is a huge network, which comprises customers, producers and suppliers. An integrated Agile Supply Chain management system can improve the collaboration mechanism and the supply relationship among different corporations, provide direct market information and broad distribution channel, and therefore increase the comprehensive benefits of corporations.To accomplish the entire business process, supply chain system needs participation of functionally different corporations. In such a supply chain, all the partners exchange information among each other, cooperate orderly and interact effectively between each other according to one certain procedure. Therefore to realize this Agile Supply Chain, it is necessary to abandon independent solution methodology and complex system connection technology. At the same time, this kind of application should also possess such properties as instantaneous assembly and flexible scalability.By studying the special requirement of Agile Supply Chain, this dissertation aims at realization of the sharing and integration of business information among the supply chain participants, the dynamic construction of Agile Supply Chain, the intellective discovery of business associates, and the automatization of business procedure.Combining the up-to-date technical achievements in Web Services and correlative advance ideas in supply chain, the following investigations are mainly evolved:(1) Research on the integrated framework of Agile Supply Chain based on Web ServicesWeb Services provides a distributed computing technique, which can be used to realize commerce application services by following standard XML protocol and information format via Internet/Intranet. The using of XML makes Web Services interface, language and promulgator independent among each other, and avoids the inter-call problem that is always encountered in current solutions (such as via CORBA and DCOM). To meet the special requirements of Agile Supply Chain, this dissertation formulates an implementation framework for Agile Supply Chain management system based on Web Services. The function partition of representative online service component, integrated interface design, and data specification model are researched, and the hierarchical structure of the entire system are definitely defined and described.(2) Research on the effective publishing and intelligent discovering of Agile Supply Chain associateThis dissertation investigates the registry, publishing, discovering and implementing mechanism of UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration), and develops a set of methods from UDDI for effectively publishing, as well as intelligently discovering and implementing, remote interface of supply chain. This includes how supply chain business entities publish their own business processes and servicedescriptions in a globally opened environment to promote their business opportunity via UDDI; and how an entity quickly and dynamically discovers its potential commerce partners and consequently cooperates with them. Additionally, how to automatically resume the formerly established peer-to-peer connection, in a "self-cured" way, is also studied.(3) Research on the dynamic mechanism of instantaneous building and integrating of Agile Supply ChainIt is an ever-changing dynamic process from the establishment of one supply chain corporation alliance to its wither away, and then the formation of a completely new one. This kind of dynamic property requires the Web Service, which performs the commerce service application, should possess the basic functions such as cross-platform call and machinery distinguishable interface. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) will be used to accomplish Web Service calling, while WSDL (Web Services Description Language) will be used to describe how SOAP calls the Web Service. This dissertation investigates the open a...
Keywords/Search Tags:Agile Supply Chain, Commerce Flow, E-business, SOA, XML, Web Services, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, WSFL
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