Exploring Dynamic Inter-Organizational Business Process Collaboration - Softcover

Norta, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3836462397 ISBN 13: 9783836462396

Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K., 2008

Synopsis

In B2B-collaboration, original equipment manufacturers are confronted with spending considerable time and effort on coordinating suppliers across multiple tiers of their supply chain. In tightly integrated supply chains, the failure of providing services and goods on time leads to interruptions of the overall production and results in customer dissatisfaction. Collaborating parties must be able to set up an inter-organizational business process by disclosing to each other only as much as necessary. At the same time, checking the correctness of an inter-organizational business process must not force the collaborating parties into revealing their process internals to each other. However, in B2B collaborations, the ability of keeping internal business activities secret is important for retaining a competitive advantage. Hence, this book proposes the eSourcing concept for improving the coordination of service provision across several tiers of a supply chain. eSourcing allows the external harmonization of business processes and the internal integration of heterogeneous system environments without requiring collaborating parties to disclose internal business details to the counter­parts.

Edition details

• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3836462397
• ISBN 13: 9783836462396
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296