文档介绍：Identifying Potential Suppliers for Formation of
Virtual Manufacturing Systems
Reggie DAVIDRAJUH , Ziqiong DENG
Narvik Institute of Technology, Post box 385, N-8505 Narvik, Norway
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organization and anization makes VMS different
Abstract from the other similar concepts like ‘enterprise
This paper describes a host enterprise search for integration’, and ‘extended enterprise'.
suppliers for formation of a virtual manufacturing At the VM lab - Narvik Institute of Technology, we are
system (VMS). VMS means a host enterprise building an autonomous data collection system to assist
collaborates with a number of suppliers and the three phases of VMS life cycle, namely, VMS
distributors; the collaboration is dynamic due to formation - operation - and reconfiguration phases.
changes in market conditions. Rather than using the This paper is specifically about the formation phase.
traditional methods for supplier selection, this paper During the formation phase of VMS, the host
uses a search method that is based on world wide web enterprise has to prepare its supplier selection criteria,
(WWW) technology; the host enterprise searches and then it should employ some procedures for
pliers for supplier selection. searching for collaborators. Though collaborating
Formulation of host enterprise's sele