In order to respond rapidly to customer demand, SCM and ERP have been widely implemented in business. However, SCM was designed as a planning level tool to support business making related activities. For instance, the advanced planning system (APS) was aimed at developing a proper production schedule to support the potential orders. On the other hand, ERP was used in the execution level in an enterprise to integrate the order execution related business process. In order to integrate the two systems, there were several gaps exists such as the suitability of using the APS results in the ERP. In this research, an integrated APS and ERP framework will be proposed to support the collaboration among these systems. It applies the concept of Web service and agent collaboration to support the issues such as workflow integration and collaboration encountered during the integration period. There are three main stages in this framework. In the business analyze stage, the collaboration process among the APS and ERP will be analyzed and constructed by using eEPC (extended event process chain) modeling method. This result will be used in the next stage, the business design stage to design the agent-based collaboration system. A workflow oriented agent-based analyzed method, WARP (workflow automation through agent-based reflective processes) will be used to analyzed the collaboration business process and construct the related agents. Finally, in the implementation level, the related agents will be constructed by integrating i2 FP SCM modules and DataSystem Workflow ERP under the Web-based environment.
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