MARE: Semantic Supply Chain Disruption Management and Resilience Evaluation Framework

TL;DR

MARE is a semantic framework that integrates heterogeneous data sources to improve disruption management and resilience evaluation in supply chains, enabling better decision-making and digitalization of supply chain processes.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive semantic-based framework for supply chain disruption management that unifies data sources across all process steps, enhancing resilience assessment and recovery strategies.

Findings

Semantic modeling of supply chain behavior under disruptions

Improved evaluation of recovery strategies

Enhanced integration of heterogeneous data sources

Abstract

Supply Chains (SCs) are subject to disruptive events that potentially hinder the operational performance. Disruption Management Process (DMP) relies on the analysis of integrated heterogeneous data sources such as production scheduling, order management and logistics to evaluate the impact of disruptions on the SC. Existing approaches are limited as they address DMP process steps and corresponding data sources in a rather isolated manner which hurdles the systematic handling of a disruption originating anywhere in the SC. Thus, we propose MARE a semantic disruption management and resilience evaluation framework for integration of data sources included in all DMP steps, i.e. Monitor/Model, Assess, Recover and Evaluate. MARE, leverages semantic technologies i.e. ontologies, knowledge graphs and SPARQL queries to model and reproduce SC behavior under disruptive scenarios. Also, MARE includes an evaluation framework to examine the restoration performance of a SC applying various recovery strategies. Semantic SC DMP, put forward by MARE, allows stakeholders to potentially identify the measures to enhance SC integration, increase the resilience of supply networks and ultimately facilitate digitalization.