Abstract
Order-Tracing is an important issue in the area of global logistics. Order-Tracing enables enterprises’ customers to seize the information of their orders and is therefore a key to making enterprises successful. Order-Tracing is a function provided by enterprises allowing customers to track order status from the enterprises they placed their orders. But even the latest Order-Tracing system can only be used to track orders in range of individual business area. Also, once a specific order is transferred to another company, this order is out of tracing. However, the cross-enterprises Order-Tracing system is a growing trend as economics developed these past years. This research introduces and Agent technology three-layer architectures as the technical development bases. Upon these bases, we design and develop a prototype that works out how to integrate these technologies with real cases. The technologies we use include traditional IT, such as web-based programming language and database system, and mobile Agent technology. Appling Agent’s mobility in supply chain Order-Tracing system development not only provides the effectiveness and preciseness of Order-Tracing but brings several advantages related to IT such as cut down the network load. The objective is to provide a prototype of such a system enabling cross-enterprises Order-Tracking.