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Chains of commitment software architecture

Author(s) -

R. Ferrell Ervin

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

acm sigecom exchanges

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1551-9031

DOI - 10.1145/844331.844333

Subject(s) - supply chain , merge (version control) , vendor , automation , computer science , competitive advantage , exploit , software , value chain , supply chain management , business , industrial organization , architecture , process management , marketing , computer security , engineering , operating system , mechanical engineering , information retrieval , art , visual arts

As eCommerce becomes more competitive and continues to expand into and merge with traditional supply-chain based businesses, a significant competitive advantage can be achieved through improved automation of the commitment process. The "chains of commitments" approach to this problem exploits the fact that a commitment from a vendor is backed up by a chain of commitments from a chain of vendors, a.k.a. the supply chain. This paper presents a high-level architecture to support this automation. It draws heavily on principles of collaborative and value chain analysis as examples, but is applicable to any commitments-based supply chain management approach.

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