Initiating a state of the art system for real-time supply chain coordination

Javad Soroor, Mohammad J. Tarokh and Ali Shemshadi

European Journal of Operational Research, 2009, vol. 196, issue 2, 635-650

Abstract: Intelligent Wireless Web (IWW) employs the capabilities of high speed wireless networks and exploits the parallel advancements in Internet-based technologies such as the Semantic Web, Web Services, Agent-based Technologies, and context awareness. Considering its great potentials to be applied in business systems, we have devised an innovative model, based on the IWW services, for a typical mobile real-time supply chain coordination system which has been developed and tested in a real operational environment. Our article investigates the proposed system in this way: at the start, the building blocks of the IWW are discussed in detail. Then, we fully explain the basic concepts of mobile real-time supply chain coordination and concentrate on the motivations to implement such a modern system. The vision of intelligent wireless web services, as discussed in this paper, centers on the need to provide mobile supply chain members highly specific data and services in real-time on an as-needed basis, with the flexibility of use for the user. In this regard, we investigate nine enabling technologies of the IWW for our system and discuss how, by exploiting the convergence and synergy between different technologies, it has become possible to deliver intelligent wireless web support to mobile real-time supply chain coordination. Afterwards, a practical framework is clearly established in four phases. This initiative system has been implemented in the laboratory and has passed the evaluation processes successfully. Further details will be announced in near future in another research article.

Keywords: Coordination; mechanism; Real-time; system; Supply; chain; management; Business; Applications; Intelligent; Wireless; Web; Semantic; web; Multi-agent; system; Context; awareness; Mobility; Ubiquity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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