出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：The traditional models of electronic data interchange (EDI) and out-of-application methods for
messaging and collaborations are not suitable to achieve the full benefits of VEASC because of
multiple limitations. The limitations are: multiple human interventions, lack of real time
visibility into the supply chain flows, inability to accurately synchronise the demand and supplyside
information, and inability to build dynamic capabilities required for facing supply chain
dynamics. The existing studies about deploying supply chain applications on cloud computing
are focussed on overcoming these limitations through service-oriented architectures and their
components. However, their focus needs to be expanded to virtual enterprise architecture
modelling to overcome the limitations of EDI and out-of-application methods effectively. The
virtual enterprise architecture supply chain (VEASC) model has been studied in this research
employing Optimised Networking (OPNET) modelling and simulations of a commercial
application called INTEND. The simulation results reflect a potential to overcome the
limitations of traditional EDI and out-of-application methods. However, the true potential of the
proposed system and the changes needed to automatically recover from failures can be
determined after testing actual transactions in a real world VEASC implementation.
