SFIDA: interoperability in innovative c-business models for SMEs through an enabling Grid platform

This position paper describes the objectives of project “SFIDA” (cofunded by the Italian Government), aiming at developing a GRID-based interoperability platform able to support next generation Supply Chain Management applications specifically addressing the needs of SMEs belonging to industrial districts and dynamic supply networks. Next generation SCM applications are intended in SFIDA to be based on componentization (e-services), intelligence (mining), collaboration (c-business) and customer business-processes orientation. The platform and the next generation SCM applications running on top of it will be tested in various typical industrial cases, spanning from automotive, textile, food, white goods and media retail.