Chapter 7

Enterprise Information Integration Modeling and Integrating Information Flows

7.1 Data and Information Integration

The growing complexity of business environments poses challenges to any enterprise seeking to maintain competitiveness in today’s rapidly changing and evolving environment. It used to be that automated SCM was the purview only of very large organizations. However, today’s businesses of all sizes need to share data with customers, suppliers, and distributors. As such, more and more enterprises are embarking upon both intra- and interorganizational business initiatives, such as PDM, PLM, CIM, and ESs. Enterprises are increasingly working together; thus, the demand for supply chain integration is rising. Such integration ...

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