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A Scalable Supply Chain Infrastructure Research Test-Bed

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Scalable Enterprise Systems

Part of the book series: Integrated Series in Information Systems ((ISIS,volume 3))

Abstract

Two classes of systems, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and supply chain management (SCM) systems, are now widely used to support the coordination of activities across major organizational components and supply chain partners. We collectively refer to such systems, as well as closely related systems and tools, as supply chain infrastructures (SCIs). In this chapter, we provide a review of various SCI architectures, describe in detail a scalable SCI research test-bed that we developed and define an integration architecture and model. In our test-bed, we use middleware and a collaboration-based architecture to achieve “application scalability”. In addition, we illustrate, by embedding an advanced available to promise (ATP) model and a simulation model within our test-bed, how to achieve “business scalability”. This chapter also describes these two classes of decision models in detail and summarizes on-going research projects based on our test-bed.

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  1. Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Z.-Y. Zhao, M. Ball & C.-Y Chen

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Zhao, ZY., Ball, M., Chen, CY. (2003). A Scalable Supply Chain Infrastructure Research Test-Bed. In: Prabhu, V., Kumara, S., Kamath, M. (eds) Scalable Enterprise Systems. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0389-7_7

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