Design And Application Of Meta-model For An Agility Management Framework Of Collaborative Supply Chain And Its Application

With the rapid development of industrial production and manufacturing,the role of collaborative supply chain in manufacturing,logistic and market aspects has become significantly important.However due to the restricted resources,European SMEs hardly have access to advanced management systems and to collaborative tools currently.Their manufacturing value chains are distributed and dependent on complex information and material flows.New approaches to reduce the complexity of manufacturing management systems are imperatively needed.The European H2020 project "Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks"(C2NET)aims to collect the most promising results from R&D EU Framework Program projects and build a novel Cloud Architecture to provide SMEs affordable tools(in term of cost and usability)to help them to overcome the current economic crisis and to enhance their competitiveness in the global economy.The present thesis mainly focuses on capitalizing on the previous works done by CGI-IO team and proposing a generic collaboration core meta-model that can be derived for various applications.In particular,the obtained meta-model is derived for supply chain collaboration modeling,and is the basis of a reference ontology for the C2 NET project.To build the meta-model of collaborative supply chain layer,series of existing collaboration ontologies and supply chain reference models were taken concerned to make the meta-model proposal concrete and relevant.The supply chain layer is mainly divided into three sub-systems: the context system,the objective system and the partner system.Thereby,the collaborative supply chain layer is integrated in a modeling tool,IO-Suite,a web application that is developed by the CGI-IO team.The concepts and relations in the meta-model were described in XML files.The application was configured by these XML files.Finally,using this modeling tool,the PFDC(Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetics)use case in C2 NET project was adapted.