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Date: September 96 TR1.1 - METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS This report details the activities of WorkPackage 1 during the first six month period of the SCM+ project. In order to achieve an understanding of the Extended Enterprise concept and requirements, SCM+ sees the need for enterprise modelling and architectures. It is realised that the modelling and tools required, requires a common language and methodology. This WorkPackage therefore highlights methods and tools already successfully in existence in manufacturing today. Each partner involved in this WorkPackage has contributed their knowledge of promising modelling methodologies and analysis tools, which they feel can be utilised in a Extended /Virtual Enterprise. The structure of the report determines the following: Intercommunication tools and the Identification of Promising Modelling and Analysis Tools. Also a view on alternative techniques and formal methods is given, continuing then with a brief introduction to Techniques for Business Process Modelling.
WP2 will involve selection and customisation of a general methodology and of these tools described in this deliverable.
Date: January 97 TR1.2 - METHODOLOGY AND CRITERIA: SELECTION OF METHODOLOGIES AND ANALYSIS TOOLS This report is a result of WP2 and represents part 2 of deliverable TR1. The first part of TR1 identified a list of methodologies and modeling and analysis tools, with an established tradition in the manufacturing industry that could have a potential applicability for virtual enterprises. The second part of this report discusses selection criteria for modeling and analysis tools specifically in the framework of the supply chain management.
Finally a brief overview of the concepts and methodologies adopted in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is presented.
Date: April 97 TR2 - DRAFT ARCHITECTURE PROPOSAL This report presents a draft proposal for the architecture of a supporting platform for virtual enterprises in the agribusiness sector. It starts discussing the various classes of virtual enterprises that can be found in this sector, presents the identified requirements and then introduces the main functionalities for a supporting platform.
This is a draft proposal that will be refined during next phase of the project. The final architecture proposal will be delivered by milestone 3.
Date: January 97 TR3 - SITUATION ANALYSIS This report presents details the activities of WP3 addressing the situation analysis for four case studies in agribusiness, including process activities, technological status, organizational structures, socio-economic contexts and inter-dependencies among "actors" of the supply chain. The following case studies are included: -Tomato processing (Frutos de Cuyo, Argentina) -Olive processing (Esteban Fábregas, Argentina) -Milk processing (Dos Pinos, Costa Rica) -Fruit distribution (Yara, Brazil)
The report also includes preliminary aspects related to performance evaluation and feasibility of a virtual enterprise, Integrated Pest
Management topics with its relationships to tomatoes and coffee, and finally a characterization of the food industry in the
state of Santa Catarina (Brazil).
Date: May 97 TR4.1 - (Draft) Business Processes Modeling of current supply chains This document, which represents the first results of WP5, includes a first approach to model current Business Processes in the supply chain of the SCM+ end users. In the food industry, BPR is a relatively new concept and many enterprises within this industry now see that conventional wisdom passed down through the years regarding manufacturing practices and how businesses are run are now becoming obsolete, and therefore must be replaced by entirely new ways of doing business.
In order to understand the supply chain operation of the SCM+ end users, it was decided to model it by using Petri nets and IDEF0.
These models show what the enterprises see as their present supply chain process, and from these models they will be able to then
formulate a set of new models and depict the supply chain process as it should be. The re-engineered models will be reported by
Milestone 3.
Date: September 97 TR4.2 - Final Architecture and Pilot Scenarios This report presents a final architecture proposal of a supporting platform for virtual enterprises in the agribusiness sector. It is composed by two parts. In the first part a general architecture to support VEs in the agribusiness sector is presented. The second part presents a pilot implementation proposal for each of the end users in the SCM+ project. An appendix giving a generic description of Business Process Re-engineering is included also. Coordinator: UNINOVA Date: September 97 TR5 - Feasibility Study and Impacts This report present some conclusions about the studies carried out within the SCM+ project, based on the results produced by the workpackages WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP5. The results include a situation analysis of the scm end users, both from the social point of view and on the organisation and linkages within the supply chain, regarding as well the selection and application of modelling tools to represent activities and processes within the supply chain and the proposal of an architecture to support the virtual enterprise implementation in the agribusiness sector. Coordinator: UNSJ |
