An approach to the construction of flexible B2B E-contracting processes

Abstract

In business-to-business relations, contracts serve both as a protection mechanism of trading parties, as well as a prescription document for activities to be executed by them.The processes of contract establishment and its enactment are often expensive and time-consuming.E-contracting aims at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the contracting process.Additionally, it offers new opportunities to the contracting parties, e.g.micro-contracting.For the design of an information system for support of e-contracting, a clear description of the e-contracting processes is required.In this report, we introduce a process model for flexible business-to-business e-contracting.To separate concerns, we distinguish structured function and communication perspectives of e-contracting processes supplemented with consistency rules.Using the defined model we propose an approach for elaboration of concrete e-contracting process specifications and their implementation in real-life business scenarios.The approach is a basis for complete functional e-contracting process specifications, with coherent communication between contracting parties and coupling between the internal and external activities of a company.Table of Contents 1 Introduction .....

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