Supply chain System based on Grid Workflow

With the increasingly severe global market competition, the nature of enterprise competition has changed from competition among enterprises into the competition among supply chains. Lowering operating costs of the supply chain and responding to market quickly have become the main objectives of the supply chain management (SCM). The emerging grid workflow technology which can integrate heterogeneous resources very well provides a good technical basis for the improvement of supply chain performance. In this paper, we point out current problems of the supply chain and the key technology to solve these problems after introducing the theoretical background of the grid workflow and the supply chain. And then a supply chain system based on grid workflow (SCSGW) is proposed, of which decision-making algorithm and scheduling mechanism is analyzed. Finally, the operating process of SCSGW is clarified through the implementation of SCSGW.