A Research on Construction of SOAs for Enterprises in China

In mainland China, many enterprises still use early client/server technologies for their supply chain management (SCM). However, with China’s participating in WHO and economy globalization improving, Enterprises in mainland China have to compete with multinational companies. They have to move from client/server technologies to service oriented architectures (SOA) in order to their SCM can catch up with their international rivals. Many enterprises in mainland China do not have enough money to invest their supply chain systems. In this paper, we propose to investigate the feasibility of using SOA in the construction of innovative and SCM of individual enterprise with numbered money. It starts with an introduction of SOA. A SOA is a form of distributed systems architecture that is typically characterized by the following properties: logical view, message orientation, description orientation, network orientation and platform neutral. The paper highlights the description problem of SOA within the context of the SCM and proposes a modeling framework as solution. It can help enterprises in mainland China to resolve their SCM with numbered money.