Inter-enterprise architecture as a tool to empower decision-making in hierarchical collaborative production planning

The novel idea of inter-enterprise architecture from the enterprise engineering perspective collaborative networks to integrate and coordinate different organizations. Therefore, -enterprise architecture offers multiple benefits, including: joint process harmonization, strategy and information technology alignment, technological cost reduction, risk and reduction, customer services improvement and enhanced responsiveness. Interenterprise can be used to solve the different issues that collaborative networks face a daily basis. A conceptual model that addresses the problem of unexpected events management the context of hierarchical production planning to improve decision-making in collaborative is proposed using inter-enterprise architecture. The proposed conceptual is composed of a framework, a modeling language and the methodology. The conceptual has been applied to a Spanish collaborative network from the ceramic tile sector. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.