Building a RosettaNet-based e-Logistics Automation System

RosettaNet consortium is an international e-business standardization organization working for establishing industry-wide, open e-business standards. Since its launch in June 1998, it has become one of the most leading e-business standard bodies in automating supply chain processes, particularly in the industries such as electronics and semiconductors. RosettaNet consortium is making efforts to extend its standard to cover more various industry sectors and businesses. The e-logistics program is such an effort to apply RosettaNet framework to logistics domain. The RosettaNet PIP is a business process standard that specifies the unit tasks of a business activity between trading partners. As PIPs are fine-grained to clearly describe each business activities without redundancy, multiple PIPs should be collectively used to implement high-level business scenarios. In this research, we seek to design and implement a RosettaNet-based e-logistics system that executes and manages multiple PIPs to automate logistics processes. By applying the e-logistics system to a real world business that incorporates third-party logistics, we have verified the flexibility of our system for managing and controlling business processes composed of multiple PIPs.