Inter Enterprise Framework for Hierarchical Decisions

Abstract

Due to the condition of the current global environment, organizations have to compete not only with single companies, but also with Supply Chains (SC) or Collaborative Networks (CN). In this sense, companies that make up this kind of organizations have to integrate their processes and must collaborate with each other in order to be competitive. To achieve this goal, companies have to deal with collaborative decision-making processes, which in this context are more complex than in a single organization. Some of these collaborative networks have a hierarchical structure, which means that each level in the structure has a different role in the decision-making process. Enterprise Engineering through Enterprise Architecture (EA) can be used by enterprises to facilitate the integration of all elements and to analyse the complex hierarchical decision processes. Therefore, in order to understand the decision-making process in a hierarchical inter enterprise context using Enterprise Architecture concepts, this paper proposes a framework for inter-enterprise architecture for supporting Hierarchical Decision.