Concept of Semantic Information Pool for Manufacturing Supply Networks

This paper presents the concept of collaboration infrastructure, which is intended to unify existing standards relevant for supply chain management and to provide the automated or semi-automated support in various decision making process, related to selection, production planning, capacity management, risk management and exception handling in manufacturing supply networks. In addition, the foreseen collaboration infrastructure is intended to facilitate and enhance the required knowledge management processes. In an industrial setting, the proposed collaboration infrastructure is expected to reduce involvement of individual SME’s in networking efforts, enable better and faster decisions and promote the development of the business brokerage services sector.