Concurrent Intelligent Integration and Optimisation Engine for Supply Chains Management

In this paper, we introduce a service framework for supply chain management, this is a top level rule based design, it can handle heterogeneous networks and allows integration with key enabling technologies like RFID tracking and leverages the power of an inference engine to manage, monitor and optimize flow networks and supply chain entities. An extension of previous work by the authors, some details of the run-time design are given along with some previous experimental results and impacts for industries. Future work points to further investigation of more heterogeneous services and their interactions within the framework and impact for industry.