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Seamless Interoperability in Logistics: Narrowing the Business-IT Gap by Logistics Business Objects

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Cloud Computing for Logistics

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Logistics IT is shifting from large, monolithic software systems to smaller, modular applications (“apps”) that can be flexibly composed to support individual business processes. In order to anticipate extensive integration projects, seamless interoperability is a crucial requirement. This paper outlines a standards-based logistics Business Object model that narrows the business-IT gap and simplifies logistics IT services regarding development and integration.

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    canonical means conforming to accepted principles or standard practice, i.e. being harmonized, agreed on, minimal, standardized, reusable, but also extensible [27].

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  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML, Joseph-Von-Fraunhofer-Str. 2-4, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Martin Böhmer & Michael Schmidt

  2. Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST, Emil-Figge-Str. 91, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Norbert Weißenberg

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Böhmer, M., Schmidt, M., Weißenberg, N. (2015). Seamless Interoperability in Logistics: Narrowing the Business-IT Gap by Logistics Business Objects. In: ten Hompel, M., Rehof, J., Wolf, O. (eds) Cloud Computing for Logistics. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13404-8_6

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