A case study of an inter-enterprise workflow-supported supply chain management system

Information and Management

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 441-454

  Liu, Jianxun ^a   Zhang, Shensheng ^b   Hu, Jinming ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agent; Electronic commerce; Interoperability; Supply chain; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AGENT; SUPPLY CHAIN; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES (VE); WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 10644247823     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2004.01.010     Document Type: Article

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