c-Commerce Models for Batch Manufacturings

Overview:

Batch manufacturing, for specialty products, offers a unique challenge to e-commerce systems. The ability to electronically define unambiguous customer requirements, using S88.01 general recipes, supports new Internet business processes. These processes support the collaborative development of the product definitions, leading to automatic generation of process manufacturing instructions. Collaborations occur within a company, between a company and its supply chain partners, between a company and its customers, or even in an open marketplace. Multi-company, roll-based processes define the collaborative workflow required to convert product requirements to process descriptions (general recipes), and process descriptions to manufacturing instructions (master recipes). These collaborative processes are substantially different from the auction and reverse auction workflows that occur in typical MRO procurement e-commerce solutions. This paper illustrates several different ccommerce models that apply to batch manufacturing. These models include intra-company coordination and inter-company collaboration around general recipes for product development and manufacturing deployment using the ISA S88 and ISA95 models.