 Timeliness and transaction management in extended enterprisesKinsun Tam and Roy H. Tsang International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2007, vol. 2, issue 4, 392-412 Abstract: An Extended Enterprise (EE) links a company to its suppliers, distributors, freighters, customers, workforce and other external constituents. Linkages among EE constituents enable coordination and collaboration in demand forecasting, production planning, deployment and transportation. Such coordination and collaboration provide synergies and reduce wasteful transaction costs, redundancies, delays and inefficiencies. The development in enterprise-level Information Technology (IT) enables various EE constituents' computer applications to collaborate closely, thus adding value to the EE. This paper considers the role of multi-tiered system architecture in enterprise extension, examines the services provided by enterprise application servers in support of EE transactions, and discusses the accounting and business implications of such services. Keywords: client-server model; external constituents; demand forecasting; production planning; collaboration; database servers; database connections; enterprise application servers; enterprise Java beans; extended enterprise; EE; scalability; three-tiered system architecture; timeliness; uneven transaction volume; transaction management; information technology; IT. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:2:y:2007:i:4:p:392-412 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Business Information Systems from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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