Title:
Integrating Organizations
in a Supply Chain with Electronic Contracts
Abstract: Agreements
between trading partners can be used to regulate the cooperation of organizations
in a supply chain. They are typically written in a natural language which
leaves room for interpretation and makes them hard to implement and enforce.
Moreover they are often rudimentary so that many details have to be worked
out during operation. It is therefore desirable to have a method that helps
in designing more formal agreements, electronic contracts, that can im-prove
the cooperation between partners. We suggest an approach to solve this problem
based on a business-action model of the interaction between organizations
in a supply chain.
Authors: Peter Rittgen