Providing logistics execution application as enterprise services

US8326706B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Achim Clemens · Speyer, DE
• Stefan Moeller · Munich, DE
• Thomas Friedrich · Bietigheim-Bissingen, DE
• Yair Ben-Shaul · Hadera, IL
• Jochen Hirth · Birkenau, DE
• Wolfgang Barheine · Bruchsal, DE
• Achim Heger · Meckesheim, DE
• Stephan Hetzer · Östringen, DE
• Andreas Bettin · Bad Schönborn, DE
• Jochen Steinbach · Bad Schönborn, DE
• Reiner Bildmayer · Bad Schönborn, DE
• Jan Richert · Mannheim, DE
• Sergio Rozenszajn · Rehovot, IL
• Irena Kull · Yehud Monosson, IL
• Shai Alfandary · Zur Moshe, IL
• Nir Pachter · Afula, IL
• Yuval Morad · Zur Moshe, IL
• Renzo Colle · Blankenloch, DE
• Nico Apfelbach · Dielheim, DE
• Martin J. Wilmes · Oftersheim, DE
• Sabine Deimel · Wiesloch, DE
• Jens Freund · Heidelberg, DE
• Frank Wagner · Reiskirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 18, 2008
• Grant date: Dec 4, 2012
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0875
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, for a service architecture design that provides enterprise services having logistics execution functionality at the level of an enterprise application. The design includes a set of service operations, process components, and optionally deployment units. Suitable business objects are also described.