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This paper presents a methodology and a case study for supply chain management in the clothing industry that makes extensive use of the virtual enterprise paradigm. The main research goal was to design and implement a prototype e‐business software component and carry out tests in several industrial users. The research effort resulted in the extended production data management system (epms), which supported the business processes of customer order management, subcontractor selection, and multi‐site/multi‐firm production orders release. The enablers of this software application were business‐to‐business (b2b) e‐commerce technologies in the operating context of application service providers (asps).

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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE CLOTHING INDUSTRY E‐BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES

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REALIZATION OF THE VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE PARADIGM IN THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY THROUGH E‐BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY

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