Approach of BPEL in supply chain activities for managing Bullwhip effect of SCM system

Intending to provide quick, efficient and effective sharing of resources across different organizations with the context of Supply Chain Management, Orchestration Engine and various web services are involved. In this research work, the proposed model using Orchestration Engine for Supply Chain Management supports supply chain consists of all parties involved, directly or indirectly, in fulfilling a customer request. Existing technologies and tools such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) infrastructures and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems do not provide a flexible and reusable solution to information sharing and application integration. The concept of Orchestration is truly nothing new fangled, however it's assessment as an enterprise resource is, and it's obviously the driving force following the value of a Service Oriented Architecture. The orchestration is the capability to organize how information flows and services interrelate to form solutions, processes actually, alive between dozens sometimes hundreds of systems, within and between enterprises. The concept of Business Process Engineering Language (BPEL) is being utilized to design the orchestration engine for the SCM. The Eclipse BPEL designer is being used to construct this engine for the supply chain management systems. Leveraging web service and web portal technologies, that have been developed a prototype web service system to facilitate communication, integration and collaboration among project participants in construction supply chains. Keywords— BPEL, Bullwhip effect, Supply chain, cloud computing