Designing a Web Platform for a Fruit-and-Vegetable Collaborative Network

The integration of functions in business networks requires a high level of integration of the information processes. Based on file transfers, these networks respond to the requirements of collaborative processes. There is an effective need for a strategy of integration among the members of the network. In the ICT era, the collaborative company needs to reach and maintain agility in the dynamics of their collaborative processes. Within the frame of a collaborative network, the developments of a web platform permit the growth of an area that integrates collaborative processes, in which several companies participate, each supplying their own data. The Fruit-and-Vegetable Collaborative Network studied in this paper is formed by producers, processers, packaging companies, marketers, transporters, and distributors. It has been developed under a web platform (Virtual Office) that allows the network to carry out processes in a collaborative way, and helps the network in its process of confidence-building and in the interactions among the actors of the network.