Operation management of virtual enterprises

Author

Gou, Hongmei ; Huang, Biqing ; Liu, Wenhuang ; Li, Yu ; Ren, Shouju

Author_Institution

The State CIMS Eng. & Res. Center, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2046

Abstract

The paper presents a study on the operation management of virtual enterprises. A virtual enterprise is a temporary alliance of member enterprises formed to exploit fast-changing opportunities. During the operation of a virtual enterprise, its constituent member enterprises, which are geographically distributed and organizationally independent, collaborate with each other to execute the whole business process of the virtual enterprise. Therefore, how to support the business process oriented virtual enterprise cooperative operation is the focus of our study on the operation management of virtual enterprises. In order to achieve this, we propose a scheme that consists of three parts: the modeling of the distributed business process in virtual enterprises, the modeling of virtual enterprises themselves, and the control of the business process execution in virtual enterprises based on the two kinds of models established in the former two parts

Keywords

DP management; Petri nets; business data processing; object-oriented methods; software agents; Petri nets; business process oriented virtual enterprise cooperative operation; distributed business process modeling; geographically distributed enterprises; member enterprises; object oriented systems; operation management; virtual enterprises; Agile manufacturing; Collaboration; Computer integrated manufacturing; Concurrent engineering; Costs; Engineering management; Lean production; Object oriented modeling; Petri nets; Virtual enterprises;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2001.973749

Filename

973749