Research Of Workflow With Application To Flow Supply Chain Management

With the rapid development of Science&Technology, the globalization of market and economy, the competition among enterprises is turning to that among supply chains. Therefore, SCM (Supply Chain Management) becomes as a new enterprise-operating philosophy, which emphasizes the strategic cooperation among enterprises. With utilizing Workflow technologies, reengineering the resources and business in a globe view and making all the enterprises on the same supply chain work together Seamlessly, In order to server the market better.Workflow automation can provide the mechanism in support of distributed compution in enterprises to meet the requirements of performance and business dynamics. Therefore, improve efficiency and flexibility of E-SCM; a good workflow system is vital for achieving optimal and coordinated operations.In the paper's framework, the first, express the theory and phylogeny of Supply Chain Management and workflow technologies. We could conclude that workflow are suite of apply to E-SCM. Then analyzes an open-source Workflow Engine (Jboss-JBPM). The last, and material approach that supports workflow process in E-SCM is proposed by implementing a workflow-based retail order management system.The research is meaningful and very important to reconstruct our national E-SCM in the filed of the retail. The above discussion is also benefit for other fields.