ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates a comprehensive planning framework for enterprise systems engineering (ESE), an integrated ESE workbench for use by multinational and multiagency stakeholders, public and private, engaged in international commerce. It evaluates alternative strategies and solutions, and to support program management in the acquisition and implementation of the selected solutions and systems by individual entities that contribute to the highly integrated global trade system. The modernization of logistics management with emergent computing, communication, and information services is central to increased performance capabilities in a networked enterprise such as international commerce, and a high- risk venture in any environment. The individual firms and agencies engaged in international commerce make decisions and investments that drive the transformation to improved performance levels. Management of the supply chain for production relies on the successful implementation of real- time information systems and sensors to track and locate commercial products, and to record transactions at points of sale, ports of entry, and delivery.
