Supply Chain Ontology

IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/supplychain/SupplyChain/

RDF: SupplyChain.rdf

The IOF Supply Chain Ontology aims to represent the generic constructs (including classes and properties) related to the domain of supply chain and logistics. The Supply Chain Ontology uses BFO as the top-level ontology and IOF Core as the mid-level ontology. The purpose of the ontology is to serve as a foundation for ensuring consistency and interoperability across various supply chain and logistics ontologies that use IOF reference ontologies.

Annotations

Acronym

SCO

Change Note

The https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/202401/supplychain/SupplyChain/ version of this ontology was modified to deprecate four constructs, namely, Gain of Role, Loss of Role, Group of Persons, and Artifact Function. These constructs are moved to the IOF Core ontology (https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/202401/core/Core/). The deprecated constructs are linked to the IOF Core equivalent constructs using owl:equivalentClass.

Contributor

  • Boonserm Kulvatanyou, NIST
  • Chris Will, National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)
  • Dusan Sormaz, Ohio University
  • Evan Wallace, NIST
  • Farhad Ameri, Texas State University
  • Jim Logan, No Magic Inc.
  • Milos Drobnjakovic, NIST

Copyright (c) 2023 Open Applications Group

Creator

IOF Supply Chain Working Group

License

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Maturity

https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/core/meta/AnnotationVocabulary/Provisional

Publisher

Industrial Ontology Foundry

Title

Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) Supply Chain Ontology

Classes (107)

Class Definition
airway —
appraisal process —
arrival process —
bill of lading —
cargo —
cargo role —
carrier —
change —
consignee —
consignee role —
consigning process —
consignor —
consignor role —
container —
departure process —
distribution center —
distributor —
distributor role —
facility —
factory —
freight forwarder —
freight forwarder role —
freight forwarding business function —
freight forwarding process —
freight forwarding service —
geospatial location —
geospatial site —
global location number —
group of suppliers —
industrial inventory —
industrial inventory role —
industry —
integrated carrier business organization —
inventory management process —
load —
load role —
location identification scheme —
location role —
logistic unit —
logistic unit role —
logistics process —
logistics service —
logistics service provider role —
lot —
lot number —
lot role —
make-to-order production capability —
make-to-stock production capability —
manufacturing service —
manufacturing service provider role —
manufacturing supply chain system —
packaging plan specification —
packaging process —
packaging service —
packaging service provider role —
part number —
piece of transport equipment —
production capability —
purchase order —
receiving process —
retailer —
retailer role —
seaway —
service consumer role —
service supply chain system —
ship from location —
ship from location role —
ship to location —
ship to location role —
shipment —
shipment plan specification —
shipment preparation process —
shipment role —
shipment state —
shipping route —
storage capability —
storage facility —
storage process —
storage service —
storage service provider role —
supplier evaluation process —
supply chain agent —
supply chain agent role —
supply chain node —
supply chain node role —
supply chain objective specification —
supply chain plan specification —
supply chain process —
supply chain system —
supply chain transport process —
supply relationship —
system capability —
traceability —
traceable resource unit —
traceable resource unit role —
tracking event —
trailer —
transport process —
transportation business function —
transportation service —
transportation service provider role —
travel process —
wagon —
warehousing plan specification —
warehousing process —
wholesaler —
wholesaler role —

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