Authors:
Alicia C. Böhm
1
;
Horacio P. Leone
1
and
Gabriela P. Henning
2
Affiliations:
1
Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño, UTN – CONICET, Argentina
;
2
Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química, UNL–CONICET, Argentina
Keyword(s):
Ontology, Supply Chain Management, Performance Evaluation, Metrics.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
Data Engineering
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Organizations all over the world are increasingly aligning in Supply Chains (SCs) in order to perform more efficiently and to achieve better results. This contribution presents a SC ontology that aims at conceptualizing and formalizing this domain knowledge. Its goal is to: a) enable a better understanding among the various stakeholders & b) set the basis for an effective information sharing and the development of integrations tools. The ontology introduces concepts associated with the SC structure, functions, resources, and management issues. Since one key component of management is performance assessment, which must be done along the whole SC, the proposed ontology focuses on performance evaluation issues.