Chapter 2: Business issues

Title: Knowledge management in flexible supply networks: architecture and major components

Author(s): Alexander Smirnov, Tatiana Levashova, Mikhail Pashkin, Nikolay Shilov, Alexey Kashevnik

Address: St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14 line, 199178, St.Petersburg, Russia | St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14 line, 199178, St.Petersburg, Russia | St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14 line, 199178, St.Petersburg, Russia | St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14 line, 199178, St.Petersburg, Russia | St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences 39, 14 line, 199178, St.Petersburg, Russia

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2007 pp. 73 - 82

Abstract/Summary: New forms of production and collaboration caused by increasing market requirements have led to appearance of complicated and highly flexible supply networks currently recognized as a strategic issue of prime importance. Involving a high number of interacting participants supply networks require intensive knowledge sharing exchange. The paper presents results of research conducted in this area. It proposes a knowledge management platform for a flexible supply network to support finding available suppliers. In build-toorder supply networks absence of suppliers that could provide required materials/components may require changes in the product structure thus affecting the PLM processes. Special attention is devoted to the ontology-based architecture of the knowledge management platform and competence profiling.

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