WSBPEL執行供應鏈協同作業之研究

A Study of WSBPEL Implementation for Collaborative Supply-Chain Operations

黃永立(Yung-Li Huang)

指導教授 ： 高有成

大同大學/經營設計學院/資訊經營學系所/碩士(2006年)

摘要

本論文針對供應鏈上、中、下游間的協同作業，提出新的企業流程整合方法，就是先以ARIS(Architecture of Integrated Information Systems)企業建模方法進行流程建模，再轉換成WSBPEL(Web Services Business Process Execution Language)流程執行模式進行自動執行。由於供需端企業各自擁有不同的系統平台、資料格式及傳輸方式，因而造成資訊不透通與流程整合等問題。所以供應鏈流程運作的瓶頸不是來自內部流程運作，而是與對外的協同作業流程。過去相關研究所提出的Web Service，雖然具有跨平台運算及開放性架構等優點，但仍缺少指揮與管理不同Web Service之間運作的機制，故無法完全實現企業間商業流程整合。因此OASIS(Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)推出WSBPEL，使企業可透過此標準將Web Service與商業流程搭配進行企業間協同作業。本研究嘗試先以ARIS建模方法中的eEPC (Extended event-driven process chain)，對複雜的供應鏈協同作業建立商業流程模式，再將eEPC模式轉換成 WSBPEL流程執行模式，以利供需雙方公司自動執行協同生產規劃。本研究以可達交(ATP)流程作業為例進行說明，證實運用WSBPEL來實作供應鏈協同作業的可行性。

關鍵字

WSBPEL、BPM、ARIS、供應鏈管理

並列摘要

This paper concentrates on the issue of automatic execution of business processes, especially for the collaborative operations of supply chains. Information systems in most of the current enterprises are able to perform business process automatically within their own companies. However, the bottlenecks of supply-chain operations often occur when these companies trying to collaborate with their allied companies. The cause may be that the data format, networking protocols and system platforms are not compatible among the buyer and seller sites. To solve this problem, Web Service that possesses a cross-platform mechanism and open structure features has been proposed. Web Service can provide specific services from remote sites but can not fully support complicate business processes containing many different functions. In 2002, OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) released a standard, WSBPEL (Web Services Business Process Execution Language), to describe the implementation of business processes requiring many web services. The function of WSBPEL is to manage and coordinate web services when a complex business process is executed. This study focuses on complex collaborative supply-chain operations. We proposed an approach that first applies ARIS eEPC (Extended event-driven process chain) to model a business process and then transfers the result to a WSBPEL process execution model for automatic execution. A WSBPEL-based system has been constructed in terms of the ATP (Available to Promise) scenario to verify the feasibility of implementing WSBPEL. The simulation result shows that our approach can effectively execute the processes of collaborative Supply-Chain operations.

並列關鍵字

ARIS ； BPM ； SCM ； WSBPEL

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