Using mobile service for supply chain management : a survey and challenges <s> INTRODUCTION <s> Common to all manufacturing companies is the need to control the flow of material from suppliers, through the value adding processes and distribution channels, to customers. The supply chain is the connected series of activities which is concerned with planning, co‐ordinating and controlling material, parts and finished goods from supplier to customer. Traditionally, the flow of material has been considered only at an operational level. No longer, however, can the potential of integrating the supply chain be ignored. Companies that manage the supply chain as a single entity and ensure the appropriate use of tools and techniques in order to meet the needs of the market, will not get left behind in the fight for survival. <s> BIB001 </s> Using mobile service for supply chain management : a survey and challenges <s> INTRODUCTION <s> For many years mobile devices were commonly recognized ::: as Web consumers. However, the advancements in mobile ::: device manufacturing, coupled with the latest achievements in ::: wireless communication developments are both key enablers for ::: shifting the role of mobile devices from service consumers to ::: service providers. This paradigm shift is a major step towards ::: the realization of pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Mobile ::: Web service provisioning is the art of hosting and offering ::: Web services from mobile devices, which actively contributes ::: towards the direction of Mobile Internet. In this paper, we ::: provide the state of the art of mobile service provisioning as ::: it currently stands. We focus our discussions on its applicability, ::: reliability, and challenges of mobile environments and resource ::: constraints. We study the different provisioning architectures, ::: enabler technologies, publishing and discovery mechanisms, and ::: maintenance of up-to-date service registries. We point out the ::: major open research issues in each provisioning aspect. Performance ::: issues due to the resource constraints of mobile devices ::: are also discussed. <s> BIB002
Efficient supply chain companies require a relevant management that is resuming on Supply Chain management (SCM). The SCM represents the concept and its effectiveness for practical application  . The objective of managing the supply chain is to synchronize the requirements of the customer with all the participants of the supply chain process, in order to effect a balance between what are often seen as conflicting goals of high customer service, low inventory management, and low unit cost BIB001 . The relevant key for SCM is the process communication, for that, it requires multiple implication of all the internal or external actors: employees, suppliers and customers to the company using business communications. Each person has to act and give the feedback in real-time and anywhere. In addition, the globalization has led companies to move their production factory, and to focus on the market of emerging countries. Web service provides mechanisms to simplify data exchange by internet regardless of their implementation platforms. This technology has eliminated the complexity associated to data exchange from application, supporting different types of devices and different operating systems. It allows changes between data server with others, personal computer and mobile devices. Furthermore, due to the large amount of work in wireless, the high technologies and the mobile devices, using the mobile computer science have set peak some applications as mobile web service. In SCM, mobile web service technologies impose themselves by proposing the mobility of web service. It allows the deployment of new services to consumers in their mobile devices as phone, PDA or lap top, to be provided and consumed at anytime and anywhere BIB002 . As the traditional web service, mobile web service can also have a semantic description  to interact smartly between all participants. This study, therefore, aims to provide a systematic and inclusive evaluation of research articles in order to gain insights into the applications of mobile service in supply chain. It also aims to develop a classification to analyse the extant literature in this subject area to provide a reference for researchers to maximize effort value in future research. Then, the paper list a proposed model for company's supply chain based on service task to coordinate theirs process. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: section II introduces a definition of mobile web service and presents some proposal architecture and their classification and exposes some relevant work in the mobile web service technology. Section III presents the concept of supply chain management and the research methodology proposed for ensuring it, then it focuses on the application proposed for mobile web service in the supply chain management face. The last section deals with the mobile web service oriented supply chain management by proposing an integrated model and some relevant research focus.