MASOAERP: A MOBILE AGENT-BASED SERVICE-ORIENTED INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE FOR BATCH CUSTOMIZATION ERP PRODUCTION

The IT infrastructures in traditional ERP were managed and owned by one enterprise being switched to networks of applications owned and managed by many business partners. Through this revolution, ERP system can be more robust and agile to the transient market opportunities. In view of the fact that distributed organizations are generally managed using heterogeneous software systems running on heterogeneous computing environments, Web Services technology provides a higher-level interoperability for leveraging business activities across the Web either within an enterprise or among collaborating enterprises. On the other hand, the characteristics of mobile agent systems present a way for resolving heterogeneity. We believe that the combination of Web services and mobile agents provides a promising computing paradigm for efficient service selection and integration of inter-organization business processes. This paper proposes MASOAERP, a mobile agent-based service-oriented integration architecture for batch customization ERP production. A prototype system is designed to demonstrate that MASOAERP can custom the collaborative ERP software under the opening, dynamic and changeable environment, realize the business enterprise alliance resources service of the dynamic state integration.