E-Logistics Processes Integration using Web Services

The interaction between the e-logistics processes and business process manager that orchestrates e-logistics processes in an e-business solution will be described in this paper. An example of transportation planning in the purchase order management process of a B2B solution is used to illustrate the usage of ELPIF by encapsulating United Parcel Service of America (UPS) on-line XML Tools as Web Services. This paper is organized as follows: Section 2 discusses e-logistics processes integration after reviewing e-logistics processes, and also presents our proposed integration framework, ELPIF, by introducing the common alliance interface, adaptation layer, and dynamic data binding mechanism. Section 3 gives an integration example using UPS On-Line XML Tools in a purchase order management process. Section 4 shows a working B2B system using e-logistics Web Services.