Collaboration and integration of the shared process system with workflow control

Today's enterprises are striving to create more specialized features through globalization and collaboration. In this regard, companies are actively involved in e-Work as well as business-to-business (B2B) e-Commerce within globalized markets. The conventional strategy for information technology (IT) has been focused on improving intra-organization process. When it comes to e-Work, however, new strategy is required to adjust to inter-organization transactions. An innovative solution is required to overcome the limits which face the current cooperation and collaboration world. As a new approach using shared process system and workflow control in e-Work, Process Flow Controller (PFC) is developed to design, interpret, and control the collaborative transaction messages based on RosettaNet standard for B2B e-Commerce. This paper addresses the role of PFC, business process modelling, and technologies used in developing PFC, and what has to be added to PFC to enable effective e-Work in practice.