Managing distributed business processes in the virtual enterprise

In this work the supply-chain co-ordination in the virtual enterprise environment is subject of analysis. The system developed by UFSC – DBPMS – for the management of distributed business process is presented and some basic concepts for its definition and development are detailed. The DBPMS provides means for getting, analyzing, making available and managing the information from and about a virtual enterprise, enabling the enterprises to make their logistics more efficiently by means of a integrated information-based supply-chain management. All the work presented in this paper was developed within the scope of the ESPRIT project PRODNET-II (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise).