Towards Novel Standard-Based Approach to Flexible Supply Chain Integration

Published

November 13, 2024

Author(s)

Elena Jelisic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Hakju Oh

Abstract

Today, global supply chains operate across different industries and different geo-political locations. As such, supply chain digitalization has to deal with diverse and incompatible formats, protocols, and structures of the Data Exchange Standards (DESes). The complexity of the global supply chain network has led to the need for increased supply chain flexibility, agility, and resilience. The study reviews different approaches to resolving the DES heterogeneity between business systems and their trade-offs in supporting flexible supply chain integration. A novel approach is then proposed with the proposition that better multi-standard management and reusable map-ping specifications should enable more efficient translation of messages from one DES to another and, consequently, more flexibility in the supply chain networking. The approach represents an extension of the existing platform for DES management. It is based on previously documented federated DES development and management, which adopts the federated learning approach. Central to the proposed approach is the concept of a super data model as an "interoperable" layer that enables semantics match between different DESes. Another important concept is Business Context, which is envisioned as a basis for the identification and reuse of the existing mapping specifications. Our initial evaluation shows the feasibility and benefit of the proposed solution. The paper identifies a list of research directions that will be addressed in the future.

Proceedings Title

International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering

Conference Dates

August 25-28, 2024

Conference Location

Washington, DC, US

Conference Title

ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

Pub Type

Conferences

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https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-145668

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Keywords

Flexible Supply Chain, Integration, Data Exchange, Standardization

Citation

Jelisic, E. , Kulvatunyou, B. , Ivezic, N. and Oh, H. (2024), Towards Novel Standard-Based Approach to Flexible Supply Chain Integration, International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering , Washington, DC, US, [online], https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2024-145668, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=957839 (Accessed March 22, 2025)