{"title":"Supply chain integration and coordination in the agri-food sector","authors":"M. Wever, N. Wognum, J. Trienekens","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461420","url":null,"abstract":"To improve supply chain performance, in terms of both quality and revenues, integration and coordination between chain actors are considered crucial. A high level of integration is generally claimed to be necessary for optimal performance. However, there are many different types of supply chains in many different contexts serving different types of markets, which may need different types of integration. Some chains, for example, serve homogeneous markets with commodity products produced in large numbers, while other, often smaller, chains serve niche markets with specialty products. In addition, organizations that are responsible for communicating quality to end consumers and maintaining quality levels in the chain are not always those at the end of the chain close to consumers, which may influence integration needs. This paper addresses integration and coordination in the supply chain based on case studies performed in Europe in the agri-food sector, more specifically the pork meat sector. In the paper integration differences will be identified.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132776359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management of product complexity through integrated PLM in a multi-lifecycle environment","authors":"J. Golovatchev, O. Budde, Chin-Gi Hong","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461416","url":null,"abstract":"The products in the telecommunications industry typically consist of several modules that in sum create the customer benefit (e.g. Multi-Play products). Each module embodies its own lifecycle, which implies an additional product complexity in terms of module design, module management and module removal from the product. Release Engineering is an approach to counter this challenge. The authors provide reasons why the holistic view on the Product Lifecycle Management is critical for an efficient PLM, and present a new approach for PLM-Process Management in a multi-lifecycle environment. Taking into consideration the typical characteristics of product components, three variants of a PLM-Process are introduced in the paper: PLM-Flex, PLM-Max and PLM-Fast. The paper closes with the presentation of a short case study validating the proposed process design for a company in the telecommunications industry.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129373366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iker Martinez de Soria, Juncal Alonso, Leire Orue-Echevarria, Mikel Vergara
{"title":"Developing an enterprise collaboration maturity model: Research challenges and future directions","authors":"Iker Martinez de Soria, Juncal Alonso, Leire Orue-Echevarria, Mikel Vergara","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461411","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet is undoubtedly permeating and transforming all aspects of our economies and societies. It is a remarkable catalyst for creativity, collaboration and innovation and more broadly for the development of our economies and societies [ERCIM, 2009]. In this context, collaboration and interoperability are pervasive subjects today as organizations strive to achieve competitive advantage in the global market fostered by the development of the new economies of scale. In the COIN IP project [IST-216256], a strategy based on readiness assessment to adopt best collaboration and interoperability practices has been implemented following the maturity models approach. The aim of this paper is to present a methodology inspired on maturity models. This methodology shows the approach used to assess organizations on their readiness for collaboration and interoperability and to guide those organizations to adopt best practices for collaboration and interoperability in networked environments.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127471030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VALTE - methodology for VALidation and TEsting of supply chain software components","authors":"H. Vieira, R. Gonçalves","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461442","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the VAL TE methodology, developed for validation and testing of supply chain software components, in the context of evaluating a collaborative supply chain planning environment based on CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment) guidelines addressing the interoperability challenges of deploying a CPFR process within a supply chain consortium. VAL TE follows the standard process defined on the evaluation reference model and guide ISO/IEC CD 25040 of the SQuaRE series of standards. This standard details the activities and tasks providing their purposes, outcomes and complementary information that can be used to guide a software product quality evaluation. The outcomes of applying a standard process approach for the evaluation activities will be the repeatability, reproducibility, impartiality and objectivity of all validation and testing processes. The paper after presenting the principal standard steps for the evaluation strategy (prepare, establish, specify, design, execute, report), describes the procedures used to generate the evaluation criteria to be applied for the functional and non-functional characteristics, i.e., functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability. VALTE has been validated under the European Commission funded project i-Surf, by evaluating the project architecture components through the use of functional tests, unit tests, fault tolerance analysis, user interface analysis, execution time measurements, inspection of documentation and analysis of software installation procedures.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133005589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of design in the provision of solutions and experiences","authors":"A. Beltagui, K. Pawar, J. Riedel","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461425","url":null,"abstract":"It is recognised that companies in almost every sector are making a transition from selling products to innovative, integrated product-service packages. These packages deliver the benefits to customers while generally removing the requirement for ownership of products. The purpose of this paper is to establish the importance of studying design's role in creating innovative product-services. The paper discusses two forms of product-service, with reference to the literature on “integrated solutions” and “experiential services”. Two cases, which are considered to be representative of these two approaches, are described, to examine the role of design. This paper presents the two concepts of experiences and solutions as alternative strategies, appropriate in different contexts. This is in contrast to the literatures which describe these as universal approaches. Analysis of the two case companies allows these concepts to be compared and contrasted, with emphasis on the role of design, in terms of design activities and spending on them. This grants a unique perspective which can benefit strategic decision makers, design managers and researchers. The paper closes with suggested research questions to expand the scope of the study, beyond the limitations of the available data.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"48 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127994782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Loss detection model with kanban card for automobile assembly line","authors":"Takeo Takeno, M. Horikawa, Mitsumasa Sugawara","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461407","url":null,"abstract":"In a modern automobile assembly line, kanban cards or e-kanban cards are used for parts supply. In the line, if a worker would assemble incorrect part to a car body, an inferior product may be shipped to the following production process. Such inferior products will be caught at the inspection process however suspension of production line will occur. In this paper, we propose a loss detection model for a work station which requires installing certain parts. Relationship between number of conveyed car bodies and consumed parts are compared to detect the loss, where we use kanban cards to count parts consumption. We present mathematical models to detect losses and some numerical examples to show stochastic performance of the proposed loss detection model.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114187003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative innovation in Smart Networks - a methods perspective","authors":"A. Lau, T. Fischer, Sven-Volker Rehm, M. Hirsch","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461412","url":null,"abstract":"Innovation management methods have been subject to extensive research during the last decades, many of which have found their way to application in practice. However, innovation management methods are still predominantly used within company boundaries, although knowledge contributions of external business partners could often boost the benefits of applying these methods. Smart Networks, focusing on Organizational Networking, Knowledge Networking and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Networking, offer an approach for the collaborative, inter-enterprise implementation of such methods. This paper presents an engineering approach for how innovation management methods can be applied collaboratively within this specific form of enterprise networking. An approach to implement innovation management methods with help of ICT applications is highlighted. Exemplarily, an implementation of the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method is illustrated.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122621020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the scientific basis of Enterprise Interoperability","authors":"M. Missikoff","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461392","url":null,"abstract":"The focus of this paper is to provide a methodological framework to support the exploration of the scientific basis of Enterprise Interoperability (EI). EI is an engineering discipline and, as such, requires a sound scientific foundation. But it is a young discipline for which boundaries and key problems are still under scrutiny. Furthermore, it is based on three more established engineering disciplines and the reciprocal support is also under careful study. Therefore, a simple listing of the most relevant scientific methods that may be useful is not helpful for our purpose. For this reason, the paper proposes a vision based on a Stratified Dependency Graph as a possible method to trace the relevance of the science base elements, and a system of Quality Feature to assess their actual effectiveness. This is just a first proposal, and much work is still ahead of us to achieve a comprehensive, well founded framework.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131483431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of SQuaRE and Generalized Nets for extended validation of CE systems","authors":"R. Jardim-Gonçalves, V. Taseva","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461371","url":null,"abstract":"The need to develop robust, quality software architectures is more critical than ever today due to the significant complexity, size and interoperability requirements typical of modern systems. Rather than wait until the architecture, design and potentially implementation phases have been completed, this paper proposes that evaluation and testing methods should be applied during the architectural phase itself, and should be rooted in standard methodologies and processes, then complementary checked through the usage of Generalized Networks (GN) theory by a simulation platform. To guarantee the quality of the architecture the ISO/IEC CD 2504n of the SQuaRE series of standards (which describes a process for evaluating the quality of software products and also describing the requirements for the components of an architecture), are adopted as a reference methodology. (GN) is a tool for Discrete Event Simulation (DES), which is equally well suited for modelling simple and large, complex systems. For a complete assessment of quality, GNs seems to be a proper complement for the validations of the dynamics of the interoperable system, after tested by the quality procedure of SQuaRE. With these, a complete system can be validated through visualization, specification, simulation, analysis, development, and report-out of the test and evaluation procedures that is applied to the architecture and its components. By applying these quality assessment techniques earlier in the software development lifecycle, it is predicted that churn of both code and the architecture itself can be reduced. This would deliver improvements in the quality, reliability, consistency and indeed sustainability of the architecture and its implementations, compared when just either SQuaRE or GNs are used separately.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133284023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dealing with interoperability: An agent-oriented perspective","authors":"K. Fischer","doi":"10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITMC.2009.7461393","url":null,"abstract":"In Today's enterprises operate in a dynamic environment which is characterized by global outsourcing, shrinking product life-cycles, and unstable demand. To prosper in this environment, enterprises face a growing need to share information and to collaborate with each other at all levels of the value chain. As organizations are gradually transforming into “networked organizations”, interoperability becomes the main challenge to realize the vision of seamless business interaction across organizational boundaries. The article presents three basic concepts investigated in the research area of agent-based and multiagent systems: communication, modelling, and services. These concepts are likely to play an important part with respect to deal with interoperability problems in the context of business applications. The article claims that a methodology that is based on such basic concepts needs to be developed to deal with the problems of interoperability in the long run.","PeriodicalId":124214,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Technology Management Conference (ICE)","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134000565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}