An approach and decision support tool for forming Industry 4.0 supply chain collaborations
An approach and decision support tool for forming Industry 4.0 supply chain collaborations
Industry 4.0 technologies, process digitalisation and automation can be applied to support the formation of supply chain collaborations in manufacturing. Underpinned by information and communication technologies, collaborations of independent companies can dynamically pool production capacities and capabilities to jointly react to new business opportunities. These collaborations may involve a wide range of enterprises with different sizes and scope that individually would not be able to tender for such new business opportunities. To form these collaborative teams, assistive processes and technologies can underpin the effort towards exploring the tender requirements, unbundling the tender into smaller tasks and finding a suitable supplier for each task. In this paper, we present an approach and a tool to support decision making concerning forming supply chain collaborations in Industry 4.0. The approach proposed is unique in integrating industry domain ontologies, assistive human-computer interaction tools and multi-criteria decision support techniques to form team compositions speeding-up the collaboration process whilst maximising the chances of forming a viable team to fulfil the tender requirements. We also show evaluation results involving stakeholders from the supply chain function pointing to the effectiveness of the proposed solution, available online as a demo1.
Decision support systems, Digitalization, Industry 4.0, Interoperability, Ontology, Supply chain collaboration
Cisneros-Cabrera, Sonia
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Pishchulov, Grigory
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Sampaio, Pedro
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Mehandjiev, Nikolay
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Liu, Zixu
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Kununka, Sophia
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1 February 2021
Cisneros-Cabrera, Sonia
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Pishchulov, Grigory
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Sampaio, Pedro
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Mehandjiev, Nikolay
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Liu, Zixu
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Kununka, Sophia
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Cisneros-Cabrera, Sonia, Pishchulov, Grigory, Sampaio, Pedro, Mehandjiev, Nikolay, Liu, Zixu and Kununka, Sophia
(2021)
An approach and decision support tool for forming Industry 4.0 supply chain collaborations.
Computers in Industry, 125, [103391].
(doi:10.1016/j.compind.2020.103391).
Abstract
Industry 4.0 technologies, process digitalisation and automation can be applied to support the formation of supply chain collaborations in manufacturing. Underpinned by information and communication technologies, collaborations of independent companies can dynamically pool production capacities and capabilities to jointly react to new business opportunities. These collaborations may involve a wide range of enterprises with different sizes and scope that individually would not be able to tender for such new business opportunities. To form these collaborative teams, assistive processes and technologies can underpin the effort towards exploring the tender requirements, unbundling the tender into smaller tasks and finding a suitable supplier for each task. In this paper, we present an approach and a tool to support decision making concerning forming supply chain collaborations in Industry 4.0. The approach proposed is unique in integrating industry domain ontologies, assistive human-computer interaction tools and multi-criteria decision support techniques to form team compositions speeding-up the collaboration process whilst maximising the chances of forming a viable team to fulfil the tender requirements. We also show evaluation results involving stakeholders from the supply chain function pointing to the effectiveness of the proposed solution, available online as a demo1.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 December 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 14 January 2021
Published date: 1 February 2021
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The work presented has received funding from the European Commission under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 723336). Financial support has been provided by the National Council of Science and Technology (abbreviated CONACyT) to Sonia Cisneros-Cabrera (agreement no. 461338). We are grateful to the Guest Editor Professor Shenle Pan and five anonymous reviewers for constructive and insightful comments on the paper. We wish to thank Arturo Jimenez, Qudamah Quboa, Tomas Grubhoffer, Jan Rada, and Jan Dyrczyk for their contribution to implementing the TDMS, and Carolyn Langen and Menno Guldemond for their work on providing the risk scores. Also, we thank the DIGICOR project team members for their invaluable input which shaped our work, and Nikolai Kazantsev for his suggestions and discussions.
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
Keywords:
Decision support systems, Digitalization, Industry 4.0, Interoperability, Ontology, Supply chain collaboration
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Local EPrints ID: 471824
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/471824
ISSN: 0166-3615
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Sonia Cisneros-Cabrera
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Grigory Pishchulov
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Pedro Sampaio
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Nikolay Mehandjiev
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Zixu Liu
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Sophia Kununka
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