A service-oriented approach to collaborative management of disruptive events in supply chains

This work presents a comprehensive proposal to systematically address the problem of Collaborative Management of Disruptive Events in Supply Chains (CMDESC). The problem is defined as a collaborative business process that specifies a set of decision making activities that require complex models to systematize the activities of capturing information about internal and external changes to predict disruptive events that can affect the schedule execution, and to systematize the activities of feasibility checking and schedule repairing considering the distributed nature of supply chains. A service-oriented approach implementing this collaborative business process is presented. Reference Models developed for automatically deriving appropriate executable models for feasibility checking and schedule repairing, and for monitoring orders and resources, are described. Examples of models validation are also described.