Supply Chain Visibility with Linked Open Data for Supply Chain Risk Analysis
Wout J. Hofman · TNO Repository · 2011
Abstract. Current customs applications are declaration based to support the various customs procedures based on (inter)national laws and regulations. To be able to perform a proper supply chain risk analysis, customs requires to have all data in supply chains. The current declaration procedures are not sufficient since they do not supported retrieval of containers stuffing information resulting in the fact that authorities do not have a complete data set. It has been shown that enterprises already have a lot of data available to meet their customer requirements that can be made directly accessible to authorities, instead of ‘pushing ’ data to the authorities based on procedures. By not only making this data available to customs but also to other authorities, they also comply with Single Window implementations. There are various solutions to data retrieval, e.g. a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) offers a potential solution. The proposed approach in this paper is based on Linked Open Data (LOD) and implies innovative IT to be implemented by both authorities and enterprises in supply chains. The paper discusses LOD and its application to supply chain risk analysis. The proposed solution allows authorities to govern global supply chains in supply networks.