Collaborative framework for virtual organisation

Abstract

In today's dynamic business environment the manufacturing companies face unprecedented changes in the business processes. The companies have shifted away from hierarchical one-dimensional corporation and are forming strategic partnerships with external entities. The review of inter-organizational processes enables enterprises to improve customer service thorough sharing expenses, resources, knowledge and information with strategic partners This paper introduce the stages that should be completed before enterprise can join the collaborative network and presents the agent based framework for data exchange between partners based on SOAP messaging. The case study is based on the ROMEIcop project. The main aim of the project is to prepare subcontractor enterprise to join collaborative environment of main customer.