Specification and verification of harmonized business-process collaborations

  • Authors:
  • Alex Norta;Rik Eshuis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 00014;Faculty of Technology and Management, Department of Information Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5600 MB

  • Venue:
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the area of business-to-business (B2B) collaboration, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are confronted with the problem of spending a considerable time and effort on coordinating suppliers across multiple tiers of their supply chains. By supporting inter-organizational business-process collaborations with service-oriented technology, a scope for more efficient and effective supply-chain coordination is anticipated. This paper defines a formal framework, called eSourcing, for specifying structurally harmonized inter-organizational business-process collaborations. The framework permits verification of harmonized processes before their enactment. Moreover, the framework uses private and public layers to protect competitive knowledge of the individual partners. In the research project CrossWork, the eSourcing framework has been integral for harmonizing on an external level the intra-organizational business processes of a service-consuming and one or many service-providing organizations.