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| In supply-chain management system, suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers
collaborate with each other to reduce operation and production cost. Typically, the organizations produce and store the data in
their production systems, e.g., ERP systems. These production
systems are usually placed in a secure place (hidden by
firewalls) and do not allow access from entities outside. To
share the data, the traditional way is to build a centralized
Data Warehouse and pull the data out from each organization
to that data warehouse for subsequent querying. However, this
approach entails heavy initial investment for both hardware
and software, and a long implementation time frame. |
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| In BestPeer system, each participant in the network runs
a BestPeer software on its own separate server. That server
periodically extracts data from the participant’s production
system, e.g. ERP, and acts as a peer to join the network. In this way, the participants can share their production data efficiently. P2P based supply chain management system can solve the problem of "bull whip effect" in the traditional systems. |
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