A research on the architecture of ERP for small & medium-sized enterprise based on agent and SOA

Abstract

With the rapid development of information technology and the gradual extension of information technology to enterprise, ERP systems become more and more complex and some new requirements that focus on both manufacturing activities and the supply chain are brought forward. To address these problems, a MAERP system architecture based on agent and SOA has been developed. To illustrate the architecture, an experiment system has been proposed in detail. This simulation implied that the architecture provides a very efficient method to design ERP systems for small & medium-size Enterprises with the purposes of flexibility to achieve the business agility, reusability of the intelligent component, and cooperation between application systems to assure a global optimization. The objectives of this paper is to illustrate the architecture of ERP systems based on agent for small & medium-size Enterprises, and the approach of how a web scrvices-based SOA supports our MAERP system. © 2008 by Springer Science+Business Media New York.