The use of systems integration architecture (SIA) to facilitate collaboration within and along the supply chain

Summary form only given as follows. The area of interest is the use of SIA to provide easy-to-use advanced technologies to facilitate collaboration within and along the supply chain, based upon AAMRC companies which require the integration of functions from disparate applications used in message passing protocols along the supply chain (protocols include CORBA, http/java, rpc, OLE, Distributed OLE and COM)