Web-service Based Integration of Multi-organizational Logistic Process

Recent business environments of keen competition require companies to communicate frequently with each other. This makes a company deal with more complex processes. Business Process Management (BPM) system plays an important role for the management of such complex processes. Recently, it moves their focus onto multi-organizational collaboration, and a platform independent architecture for the communication is required. Web services are platform-independent and service-oriented architectures for easy communication among heterogeneous systems. In this paper, we propose a new method of integrating BPM and web services to manage multi-organizational processes. A standard, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) plays a key role in our approach. We consider several scenarios for integrating web service and BPM using the BPEL when a company performs a complex process with other partners. We also provide technical issues of the integrated system. A BPM system is implemented to present the result of our research. Our approach enables each business partner to carry out business collaboration seamlessly.