An approach for formalising the supply chain operations

  • Authors:

  • Milan Zdravkovic;Herve Panetto;Miroslav Trajanovic;Alexis Aubry

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Intelligent Production Systems, University of Nis, Nis Serbia;Research Centre for Automatic Control (CRAN - UMR 7039), Nancy-Universite, CNRS, Nancy, France;Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Intelligent Production Systems, University of Nis, Nis Serbia;Research Centre for Automatic Control (CRAN - UMR 7039), Nancy-Universite, CNRS, Nancy, France

  • Venue:
  • Enterprise Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Reference models play an important role in the knowledge management of the various complex collaboration domains (such as supply chain networks). However, they often show a lack of semantic precision and, they are sometimes incomplete. In this article, we present an approach to overcome semantic inconsistencies and incompleteness of the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model and hence improve its usefulness and expand the application domain. First, we describe a literal web ontology language (OWL) specification of SCOR concepts (and related tools) built with the intention to preserve the original approach in the classification of process reference model entities, and hence enable the effectiveness of usage in original contexts. Next, we demonstrate the system for its exploitation, in specific-tools for SCOR framework browsing and rapid supply chain process configuration. Then, we describe the SCOR-Full ontology, its relations with relevant domain ontology and show how it can be exploited for improvement of SCOR ontological framework competence. Finally, we elaborate the potential impact of the presented approach, to interoperability of systems in supply chain networks.