Every new technology promises to solve a lot of problems inside and between companies and, consequently, achieve unforeseen performance improvements. Nowadays, Service-Oriented Architectures begin to be promoted as a new field where companies may realize their visions and put all their new strategies in practice. Although they initially were focused on intra-organizational integration efforts, now they begin to be used for inter-organizational business processes engineering support in networked organizations. But, when implementing these kinds of initiatives, successful histories are mostly linked to major companies, with considerable budgets allocated to the project. By counterpart, the INPREX project (Spanish acronym for Interoperability in Extended Processes), here presented, falls out this category. By contrast, this is an undergoing initiative leaded by a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) and founded by a local government in Spain. In this work, we will present main project's achievements where the IDIERE Platform is used to improve the coordination in a Networked Organization scenario. Five SMEs are involved in a project which main objective is to deploy a low cost and scalable platform that allows them to improve a Collaborative Production Planning business process.
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