The extended enterprise is formed according to the philosophy of dispersed networked manufacturing. Manufacturing execution system (MES) can close the information gap which exists between device control system and production information management system. The functions and the web-based architecture of the MES in the extended enterprise are introduced. Using the cooperating system models of object-oriented and distributed agents and CORBA, all objects keep to uniform interface standards and are easily inserted to object request broker. The utilization of distributed MES in extended enterprise can adapt fast change of manufacturing environment and resource. It also can improve the independent management capability of manufacturing cell and the enterprise response capability to global economic competition.