A supply chain represents how businesses are linked to each other by the supply of products and services. To get a clear picture of the information system architectures of the involved businesses in the food supply chains, we elaborate an approach with reference models. Our framework has three dimensions. The resulting architectures of these perspectives, including the chain architecture, are represented in figure 2. The distinghuished interactions between these architectures are depicted by the dashed lines.
Time representation is incorporated in the dynamics.
The next table shows an example of linking the dynamic and the proces aspect by showing the events that generates orders. In business and information engineering projects, defining parts of the food supply chain, we select aspects of the second dimension. The approach needs to supports decomposition as well as integration. Therefore we use modelling techniques in a metamodelling approach, where the resulting components of these techniques are adjusted, balanced and checked. Especially the aspects data, process and dynamics often are defined in a stable manner for a given line of business.