Hierarchical Architecture for Enterprise Information System under Dynamic Environment

摘要

In a dynamic environment, it is vital for enterprise to have flexible information system architecture tornintegrate ERP, Supply Chain Management (SCM) and E-Commerce (EC). The traditional ERP-centered flatrnarchitecture lacks of such flexibility and is not suit to the dynamic environment. In a dynamic environment, therndesign of system is to find the stable properties or entities in the microscopic level and macroscopic level. Basedrnon the system viewpoint, a hierarchical architecture in which SCM is centered while ERP is located in the agentrnlevel is proposed. An engineering case is described.