Supply Chain Management Ontology

Kanchan KaradkarMS in Industrial Engineering

December 2, 2013

Definition: The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) defines supply chain

management as encompassing “the planning and management of all activities involved

in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities."

The management of upstream and downstream value-added flows of materials, final

goods, and related information among suppliers, company, resellers, and final

consumers.

Introduction : Supply Chain Management

Information sharing takes place across four important components of supply

chain plan, source, make and deliver.

Approach:

SCOR Model

Incorporates

o Basic Formal Ontology

o Relation ontology

Purpose:

To identify the key concepts of SCM and define relationship between the

same.

The supply chain management ontology has the goal of providing a

framework to better formulate, understand, analyze and share a company’s

supply chain management model.

Supply Chain Management Ontology

SCM Ontology : True Path

Important Terms : Supply Chain Planning

SCM Ontology : Important Terms

Existing Ontologies

Lean Supply Chain Ontology

Supply Chain Management

Ontology

Manufacturing Ontology

Logistics Ontology

SCM Ontology

─ Doesn’t incorporate plan and source

activity

─ Doesn’t have the SCOR model

approach

─ Can be incorporated in proposed

ontology

Related Work

Understanding a company’s Supply Chain Model

To better formulate, understand, analyze and share a company’s supply

chain management model

Supplier relationship management (Third Party Engagement)

Enabling supplier and manufacture to understand each other

To measure performance metrics

Measurement of performance metrics can be done with a goal to aggregate

common terms, relate those to the performance attributes.

Kanban

Application of SCM Ontology

Proposed ontology can act as a frame to add terms

Depending on the product manufactured SCM ontology can be

customized.

Future Scope

Thank you !!

Questions??