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Figure 7.9: The delivery process to shops of enterprise B in EEML
The delivery processing of PM B2 describes only a part of the sales logistics process.
PM B2 in EEML is illustrated in Figure 7.7, and some of the process detail is displayed
in Figure 7.8 and Figure 7.9.
7.3 SCOR Reference Ontology
SCOR is a process reference model that has been developed and endorsed by the Supply-
Chain Council as the cross-industry standard diagnostic tool for supply-chain management.
A SCOR reference model has been developed to describe the standard business
activities associated with all phases of satisfying a customer’s demand. As standards,
the model can be formalized as a reference ontology for supply-chain management domain.
There are three level process details in the reference model. The top level defines
the scope and content of SCOR. Five process types — Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and
Return are defined at this level. The second level is the configuration level defining
the core "process categories". The third level is the process element level, decomposing
the process categories into the process elements. The process element level consists
of process element definitions, process element information inputs, and outputs, process
performance metrics, best practices, system capabilities required to support best
practices, and systems/tools. As an example, a logic flow of the SCOR level 3 process
elements is depicted in Figure 7.10.
The level 3 process elements provide enough details of references for domain activities.
In this work, we model domain ontology concepts based on the SCOR process
elements at level 3 for model annotation purpose. The SCOR ontology from the IN-
TEROP project [62] is extended. The extended ontologies include SCOR_INPUT_OUTPUT,
SCOR_MGM_PROCESS and SCOR_ORGANISATION. SCOR_INPUT_OUTPUT are objects which
are needed or produced by SCOR process elements. SCOR_MGM_PROCESS are the SCOR
process elements at level 3 which are organized in a hierarchy following the SCOR