SCONTO: A Modular Ontology for Supply Chain Representation

HORACIO LEONE; ALICIA BÖHM; MARCELA VEGETTI; GABRIELA HENNING

online

Workshop; Domain Ontologies for Research Data Management in Industry Commons of Materials and Manufacturing (DORIC-MM 2021); 2021

OntoCommons H2020 CSA Project

Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves coordinating and integrating material,information and money flows, both within and across several companies. The information associated with these flows is perceived differently by distinct companies, raising semantics-related problems. Industry 4.0 and the Digital Supply Chain initiative request a seamless integration. This implies achieving technical, syntactic, semantic and organizational interoperability. For several years, ontologies have been considered the key technology to achieve semantic integration. Therefore, this contribution presents SCOPRO, which is the main module of SCONTO, supply chain ontology. SCOPRO is an ontology that formally describes a supply chain (SC) at various abstraction levels, by specifying its associated business processes based on the SCOR de facto standard and by sharing a precise meaning of the information exchanged among the many stakeholders involved in the SC.