Title
Market-Based Workflow Management for Supply Chains of Services
Abstract
This paper proposes the application of market-based workflow management for enabling a new form of relationship between customer and suppliers of services. This form is more flexible than the usual long-term fixed relationship with single partners. It allows customers to coordinate their processes with the services operated by the suppliers while still benefiting from a market competition enhanced with more customers and suppliers. A software system is being prototyped to demonstrate the concepts. It consists of a set of workflow systems and an automated trader system. The workflow systems reside in different organizations and the trader system acts as an intermediary among the customers and suppliers of services, maintaining information about their offers and requests. The traded services are treated as work-flows. An illustration is given in the domain of logistics, where a company out-sources part of a transportation process to external suppliers of the required services.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/HICSS.2000.926843
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,automated trader system,market-based workflow management,different organization,workflow system,trader system act,usual long-term fixed relationship,new form,company out-sources part,supply chains,external supplier,software systems,transportation,supply chain,workflow management
Business process management,Workflow technology,Computer science,Digital firm,Knowledge management,Commerce,Supply chain management,Supply chain,Workflow engine,Workflow,Workflow management system,Process management
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0493-0
19
2.24
References 
Authors
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Claude Stricker1203.31
Stefano Riboni2192.58
Markus Kradolfer313234.96
John Taylor4192.24