The extended enterprise-a context for manufacturing

The role of Bill of Materials and Movements (BOMM) in the virtual enterprises environment

“…In a virtual enterprise the integration level is bigger and, comparatively to extended enterprise, the partnership agreements are shorter in time (Jagdev and Browne 1998). It is possible to say that extended enterprise is better used when a dominant enterprise that extends its boarders to all, or a majority, of its suppliers is present (Camarinha-Matos et al 1998).…”

“…In the opinion of some authors, extended enterprise is the dominant expression, and the difference between extended and virtual is resumed to a semantic question (Jagdev and Browne 1998). In a virtual enterprise the integration level is bigger and, comparatively to extended enterprise, the partnership agreements are shorter in time (Jagdev and Browne 1998).…”

“…Comparatively to extended enterprise, virtual enterprise concept has a more extensive scope, and includes the first in it. Consequently, extended enterprise is a particular case of virtual enterprise concept (Jagdev andBrowne 1998, CamarinhaMatos andAfsarmanesh 1999).…”

A communications framework for extended enterprise performance measurement

“…The concept of the EE arises partly from attempts of manufacturers, situated at geographically dispersed locations, to build formal partnerships to gain competitive advantage. The crux of this logic is to embrace external resources and services without owning them (Jagdev and Browne 1998). Whicker and Walton (1996) suggest that the EE concept differs from the Virtual Enterprise concept insomuch as it consists of a dominant trader that is associated with all, or some, of its suppliers; the boundary of any particular EE that an organisation belongs to can be defined by how far the influence of its internal value chain reaches throughout its suppliers and partners.…”

An Integrated Approach for Logistic Partner Selection in a Logistics Alliance

“…Jagdev et al [1] review high quality products are necessary precondition for entry into the market and for many manufacturers high quality is no longer the basis of competitive advantage, so cost and time to market are the basis of competitive advantage. Camarinha-Matos et al [2] present a framework for partner selection and describe the functionalities in detail, but no techniques to make the trade off based on the cost and time are proposed.…”