@inproceedings{d8c5d24f14cd48d79e0dfdb190b25f14,
title = "Manufacturing capability inference and supplier classification based on a formal thesaurus",
abstract = "Standard representation of manufacturing capability information is a necessity for efficient configuration of loosely-coupled supply chains. ManuTerms is a formal thesaurus that provides a set of standard vocabulary that can be used for description of manufacturing capabilities. In this paper, a method is proposed for supplier characterization and classification guided by ManuTerms. The tools developed in this work use the capability narrative of manufacturing suppliers as the input and extract key concepts that refer to certain aspects of manufacturing capabilities in order to characterize and classify manufacturing suppliers. Through an experimental study, the supplier classification method was validated with respect to the level of agreement with human judgment.",
keywords = "Manufacturing capability, Supplier characterization, Supply chain interoperability, Thesaurus",
author = "Farhad Ameri and Stan Thornhill",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2013.; IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2013 ; Conference date: 09-09-2013 Through 12-09-2013",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-41266-0\_42",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer New York LLC",
pages = "344--351",
editor = "Vittal Prabhu and Marco Taisch and Dimitris Kiritsis",
booktitle = "Advances in Production Management Systems",
}