A Virtual Enterprise Application for the Textile and Apparel Industry

摘要

Companies are focusing more and more on a collaboration based on computer networks, on Internet, etc., as a reaction to the accentuated changes that occur on a dynamic turbulent market. The concepts of Virtual factory, Virtual Enterprise, seem to offer solutions in order to surpass the periods of crisis by guaranteeing the survival of VE partners, the profit of such organisations, etc. In a nutshell, they can offer a prompt answer to clients' demands in a turbulent competitive context, they can contribute a great deal to the protection of the environment, they can guarantee the quality of products according to the customers' demands; therefore, they become agile.