The ILO Governing Body decided in 2013 to place an item on decent work in global supply chains on the agenda of the 105th Session of the International Labour Conference. Many studies have explored ...the economic and trade dimensions; however, less attention has been paid to the implications for employment, working conditions and labour rights, including freedom of association and collective bargaining. The general discussion therefore has an original contribution to make to the global debate.
Looking at Volvo Car Corporation which has started using a collaborative radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled Track and Trace (T&T) system in order to monitor the location of their cargo, ...this case study examines the function of T&T which enables companies to know the location of various objects and the history of its movement. --
Supply chain distributed simulation has as major advantage to maintain members' autonomy, being able to reuse existing simulators and avoiding making a new one. However, a new problem emerges. It is ...required an agreement about the meaning of objects, events, interactions and metrics, to be shared during simulation in order to successfully achieve the simulation objectives. In this work, we present a conceptual framework based on an ontology network, which is the frame to define the modeling and simulation of supply chain in a distributed environment, guaranteeing semantic interoperability among members. The HLA (High Level Architecture) standard has been used as a tool to build distributed simulation. Keywords: Semantic Interoperability; Ontology Network; Supply Chain; Distributed Simulation; HLA. La simulacion distribuida de cadenas de suministro tiene la gran ventaja de preservar la independencia de los miembros de la cadena, pudiendo reutilizar simuladores existentes sin necesidad de crear uno nuevo. Sin embargo, el problema que emerge en este tipo de simulacion es la necesidad de acordar el conjunto de objetos, eventos, interacciones y metricas, que deben ser entendidas por todos los participantes para lograr con exito un resultado valioso para los mismos. En este trabajo se presenta un marco conceptual basado en una red de ontologias, que da soporte a las tareas de modelado y composicion de la simulacion distribuida de cadenas de suministro para garantizar la interoperabilidad semantica de sus miembros. Se utiliza el estandar HLA (High Level Architecture) como herramienta de construccion de una simulacion distribuida. Palabras-clave: Interoperabilidad Semantica; Red de Ontologias; Cadena de Suministro; Simulacion Distribuida; HLA.
Supply chain distributed simulation has as major advantage to maintain members' autonomy, being able to reuse existing simulators and avoiding making a new one. However, a new problem emerges. It is ...required an agreement about the meaning of objects, events, interactions and metrics, to be shared during simulation in order to successfully achieve the simulation objectives. In this work, we present a conceptual framework based on an ontology network, which is the frame to define the modeling and simulation of supply chain in a distributed environment, guaranteeing semantic interoperability among members. The HLA (High Level Architecture) standard has been used as a tool to build distributed simulation.
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