The integration of activities in the supply chain and the technologies that give them appropriate support have been specifically explored and intensely related to the new communication and information technologies (IT). This work extend this analysis to the adoption of technological innovation in the industrial network, which is related to changes in the transacted product, besides changes in the management process provided by the advances in the IT. The question offered for this reflection is: how the companies adjust this new configuration, provided by technological and organizational innovations, to the chain management? This paper presents the concept of inter-organizational architecture as being this new configuration, where new structures for the decision process of location and use of the productive capacity of the logistics network (technological resources) take place, as well as the coordination process (management of the activities for positive use of the resources transacted in the supply chain). A conceptual model for the performance of this architecture is also presented.
supply chain; technological management; organization
