An overview of the CMSO project is given in
Matthiesen (1992). Within the CMSO project the
greatest effort was expended in the area of telematics.
This effort resulted in the development of
CMSO-Box, a layered, Open-EDI based, communication
service for manufacturing logistics
(Schaber, 1993). Another major achievement of
the project is the supply chain methodology and
corresponding effectiveness analysis described in
Harland et al. (1993). Besides these first-wave
re-engineering achievements, CMSO has also resuited
in second-wave achievements (see Section