Supply Chain Management Ontology

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December 2, 2013
Supply Chain Management Ontology
Kanchan Karadkar MS in Industrial Engineering
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Introduction Supply Chain Management

• 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.

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Supply Chain Management Ontology

• Information sharing takes place across four
  important components of supply chain plan,
  source, make and deliver.
• Approach
• SCOR Model
• Incorporates
• Basic Formal Ontology
• 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 companys supply
  chain management model.

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SCM Ontology True Path
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Important Terms Supply Chain Planning
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SCM Ontology Important Terms
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Related Work

• Existing Ontologies

• SCM Ontology

• Lean Supply Chain Ontology
• Supply Chain Management Ontology
• Manufacturing Ontology
• Logistics Ontology

• Doesnt incorporate plan and source activity
• Doesnt have the SCOR model approach
• Can be incorporated in proposed ontology

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Application of SCM Ontology

• Understanding a companys Supply Chain Model
• To better formulate, understand, analyze and
  share a companys 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

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Future Scope

• Proposed ontology can act as a frame to add terms
• Depending on the product manufactured SCM
  ontology can be customized.

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• Thank you !!
• Questions??