A Planning and Scheduling Methodology for the Virtual Enterprise

2011 ◽  
pp. 256-269
Author(s):  
Florent Frederix
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Iteration Process ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Activity Schedules ◽  
Feasible Schedule ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Geographically Dispersed

Virtual enterprises consisting of geographically dispersed, independent units are a reality in the global economy. These units concentrate on core technologies and create partner networks for the design, manufacturing and sale of their products. This chapter documents a methodology, more flexible and efficient than the more traditional techniques, to schedule activities in virtual enterprises and enterprise networks. The presented technique that stepwise searches for improved activity schedules has the advantage that in any stage of the iteration process a resource-feasible schedule is available. Investing in network and computation capacity will result in more efficient schedules. The virtual enterprise unit will view the platform as a time-phased capacity trading marketplace.

Quality management framework for a virtual enterprise network: a multi‐agent approach

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C.W. Lau ◽  
Christina W.Y. Wong ◽  
Eric W.T. Ngai ◽  
I.K. Hui
Keyword(s):  
Core Competencies ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Enterprise Network ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Agent Model ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
To Come

Globalization and the borderless marketplace have created an opportunity for companies to come together to work on projects that could otherwise not be completed through the efforts of one or two companies acting independently. The formation of virtual enterprise networks combines the advantages of the various core competencies of members of the network to deliver customer satisfaction. Virtual enterprise networks consist of several firms that can be geographically dispersed, and that might be technically disparate in terms of system platforms. Coordination among members of the network and the the transfer of quality products and services among members of the network are the key factors in achieving success. The proposed framework presented in this paper utilizes a multi‐agent model to monitor quality within a virtual enterprise network to ensure that the processes among members run smoothly and efficiently.

scholarly journals VPN solutions and network monitoring to support virtual teams work in virtual enterprises

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Roşu ◽  
George Drăgoi
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Local Area Network ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Virtual Private Network ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Private Network

In order to be competitive enterprises continuously implement ICT strategies & architectures to improve manufacture, research, products quality, sales, services and costs control. All large enterprises have a local area network, a virtual private network, an Intranet and Internet, servers and workstations for operations, administration and management working together for the same objective: profits. The virtual enterprise and the virtual team?s concepts are discussed in this article. This work analyzes the network architecture for geographically dispersed enterprises (seen as virtual enterprises) as support for virtual project development by virtual teams work. In addition, the paper presents an enterprise networks monitoring solution using open source software (OSS).

Virtual Enterprise Network Solutions and Monitoring as Support for Geographically Dispersed Business

2012 ◽  
pp. 34-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Marius Rosu ◽  
George Dragoi
Keyword(s):  
Network Architecture ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Network ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Service Invocation ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Role Based ◽  
The University

Transnational enterprises are assigning design and production around the world, but research is aimed to generate and support the enterprises’ networks formation and operation as virtual enterprises through the setting-up of service-oriented workspace environments. We consider here a role-based authorization approach to service invocation as necessary in order to enhance and guarantee the integrity of the transactions that take place in the business environment of a virtual enterprise. The virtual enterprise network and the virtual team are the main concepts used in analyzing the network architecture for geographically dispersed enterprises as support for business development. Using this e-business oriented paradigm this chapter presents an enterprise network monitoring solution based on open source software (OSS) implemented in the PREMINV Research Center, at the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest.

Managing IT Risks in Virtual Enterprise Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Shalan
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
It Integration ◽  
It Usage ◽  
Special Approach ◽  
It Risk

Information Technology (IT) has proven to be a critical enabler for the formation and operation of Virtual Enterprises (VEs) and a provider of unique business enabling capabilities. Nevertheless, IT integration with VE business model particularities is never a trivial task, thus calling for a special approach to discover and mitigate risks and apply controls related to the continuously growing of IT usage and support in a VE environment. The main objective of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive in depth analysis of risks and issues associated with the IT aspects of Virtual Enterprise Networks (VENs) from technical and procedural point of view and to prescribe specific guidelines to mitigate the effects of the identified and analyzed risks, processes and consequences; In that context, this chapter also aims to promote and suggest an IT risk governance framework that will address the IT risks related to Virtual Enterprises following the recent trend of organic risk management.

Mitigating Risk through Building Trust in Virtual Enterprise Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Burak Sari
Keyword(s):  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Virtual Collaboration ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Building Trust ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Organization ◽  
And Performance

The emergence of virtual enterprise networks represents a dynamic response to the challenge of the hierarchical coordination of networked businesses. Therefore, the chapter’s first aim is to provide justified answers to the question of why the virtual enterprise business model is getting so much attention and correlate these answers with the main business drivers that today’s enterprises are facing. In virtual enterprises, the distributed tasks of the partners must be integrated over and above the barriers of missing face-to-face interactions and cultural differences. The social integration of the virtual network involves the creation of identities for the participating nodes, the building of trust and the sharing of tacit and explicit knowledge between them. The traditional organization already doing well in these areas seems to have an edge when going virtual. As a consequence, trust becomes more and more important in these types of virtual collaboration networks. Therefore, this chapter finally aims to discuss extensively the way of managing trust in virtual enterprise networks as a solution to mitigate collaboration and performance risk in varying business situations and also aims to present conditions for building trust in the virtual collaboration context.

Virtual enterprise networks: the fifth element of corporate governance

2001 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Georgantzas
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Transaction Cost ◽  
Transaction Cost Economics ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Exchange Governance

Although still flying low under the popular business media's collective radar, virtual enterprise networks (or nets) do receive increased attention in the strategic management literature. A virtual enterprise network (VEN) is a system of autonomous firms that collaborate to achieve common business objectives. VENs give participants a competitive edge in markets demanding agility and rapid response. Seen as an emerging transactional exchange governance (TEG) form within transaction cost economics (TCE), VENs and the relations among firms that form them posit challenges for researchers and managers. VENs differ substantially from markets and hierarchies, and from recurrent and relational contracts, utterly changing what it means to be a firm in today's business. This essay explores alternative TEG forms, their characteristics and the criteria that bear on the choice of corporate governance: flexible specialization, market uncertainty, product (good or service) complexity, reliance on trust, risk, self-organization, shared knowledge, and socio-territorial cohesiveness. The essay offers propositions on the relations among economic criteria and the choice of transactional exchange governance forms by exploring the dynamics of a generic TEG structure. This is a system dynamics simulation model that partially offsets the shortcomings of transaction cost economics (TCE) and points to the potentially rich contribution of system dynamics to exploring VENs beyond the ideal-type TEG forms of markets and hierarchies that dominate the TCE literature.

B2B, B2C and Virtual Enterprise Management Systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-127
Author(s):  
Yong Geng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Enterprise Management ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Detailed Evaluation ◽  
Business To Consumer ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Business To Business

This research paper provides a detailed evaluation of the business concepts in Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce). The concept of E-Commerce defines the exchange of goods and services with monetary value between consumers and companies. E-Commerce is a web-based catalogue whereby buyers can possibly place order and sellers possibly accept payments. E-Commerce incorporates two forms of business: Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C), which provides a definition of the commerce transactions between enterprises, such as between the wholesalers and the manufacturers or the retailers. B2C E-Commerce provides enterprises with the model which allows businesses to deliver purchasers to the relevant merchants and achieve from the commission rewards given by the merchants. This paper evaluates two forms of business with relation to management of Virtual Enterprises (VE) in the field of E-Commerce. The paper will end with an analysis of VE before projecting future directions for health of B2B and B2C in business.

Enabling the Shipbuilding Virtual Enterprise

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Richard W. Bolton ◽  
Paul Horstmann ◽  
Darcy Peruzzotti ◽  
Tom Rando
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Team Member ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
The Us

Shipbuilding in the United States is characterized by large teams of suppliers and subcontractors who collaborate and support shipbuilders. It is important that these shipbuilding teams function as a single integrated organization: A Virtual Enterprise. The inefficiencies and impediments caused by each team member using their own choice of information technologies, software, data management and processes must be addressed to increase overall US shipbuilding efficiency and cost effectiveness. The NIIIP SPARS project is developing the information infrastructure and protocols to enable shipbuilding Virtual Enterprises that will improve collaboration and information exchange within the US shipbuilding community.

Cloud-Based Application Integration in Virtual Enterprises

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Carlos Martins Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Collaborative Network ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Application Integration ◽  
Enterprise Information ◽  
Enterprise Information Systems ◽  
Integration Problem ◽  
The Individual

A key characteristic of a virtual enterprise (VE) is the heterogeneity of the applications that compose its enterprise information systems (EIS), since it builds on the EIS of the individual enterprises that are part of the collaborative network of that VE. This raises an application integration problem, which is even more serious than within any given EIS because a VE has a temporary nature, and therefore, integration requirements can change frequently. Current integration technologies, such as Web Services and RESTful APIs, solve the interoperability problem but usually entail more coupling than needed, since they require sharing data schemas between interacting applications, even if not all values of those schemas are actually used. The fundamental problem of application integration is therefore how to provide at most the minimum coupling possible while ensuring at least the minimum interoperability requirements. This chapter proposes compliance and conformance as the concepts to achieve this goal.

Custom-Made Cloud Enterprise Architecture for Small Medium and Micro Enterprises

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 52-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Promise Mvelase ◽  
Nomusa Dlodlo ◽  
Quentin Williams ◽  
Matthew O. Adigun
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Custom Made ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
Micro Enterprises

Small, Medium, and Micro enterprises (SMMEs) usually do not have adequate funds to acquire ICT infrastructure and often use cloud computing. In this paper, the authors discuss the implementation of virtual enterprises (VE) to enable SMMEs to respond quickly to customers’ demands and market opportunities. The virtual enterprise model is based on the ability to create temporary co-operations and realize the value of a short term business opportunity that the partners cannot fully capture on their own. The model of virtual enterprise is made possible through virtualisation technology, which is a building block of cloud computing. To achieve a common goal, enterprises integrate resources, organisational models, and process models. Through the virtual business operating environment offered by cloud computing, the SMMEs are able to increase productivity and gain competitive advantage due to the cost benefit incurred. In this paper, the authors propose a virtual enterprise enabled cloud enterprise architecture based on the concept of virtual enterprise at both business and technology levels. The business level comprises of organisational models, process models, skills, and competences whereas the technology level comprises of IT resources.

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