Session: CIE-20 SEIKM: Advanced Manufacturing for Bioeconomy and Circular Economy

Paper Number: 145668

145668 - Towards Novel Standard-Based Approach to Flexible Supply Chain Integration 

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 shows different approaches to resolving the DES heterogeneity between business systems. However, they cannot support a flexible supply chain integration. This paper proposes an approach for multi-standard management and identifiable and reusable mapping specifications that should enable easier translation of messages from one DES to another and, finally, the flexibility of the supply chain networks. An 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 evaluation 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.

Presenting Author: Elena Jelisic National Institute of Standards and Technology

Presenting Author Biography: Elena Jelisic received a B.S. degree in information systems and technologies in 2011 and an M.S. degree in information systems in 2013, both from the University of Belgrade. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in information systems at the same University. Since 2011, she has been engaged as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, at the Department of Information Systems. Her research interests include software development and database design, integration and interoperability of enterprise services and applications. Since 2020, she has been engaged as a Research Associate in the Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Authors:

Elena Jelisic National Institute of Standards and Technology
Boonserm Kulvatunyou National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nenad Ivezic National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hakju Oh National Institute of Standards and Technology