Research on supply chain management security under Windows Communication Foundation

The enterprise alliance is consistently leading to the construction of cross-enterprise information system. The research of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)- based SCM (Supply Chain Management) and modern information technology has become a hot topic. Especially, the secure design and deployment related to SCM brings attention from industrial world and is becoming to research focus. This paper starts from the security of SCM, analyzes the business characteristic and security demands of SCM system by taking the most typical purchase model as an example, and then designs Web-service based security application model of SCM, combining with WS-Security specification and the latest WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) technical platform. As a result it achieves the goal of message level security and access control.