Integration of semantic interoperability in a distributed architecture of multi-site planning

In actual production markets, a supplier or a customer can participate, simultaneously or not, to many supply chains. That makes multi-site planning a critical and difficult task due to the heterogeneity that can exist between planning applications of the various partners. In this article, SCEP-SOA, an interoperable architecture for multi-site planning is proposed. Based on a Service Oriented Architecture and integrating the concepts of the generic model of planning and scheduling SCEP (Supervisor, Customer, Environment, and Producer), this architecture enables applicative interoperability between heterogeneous planning systems. To take into account the semantic heterogeneity problem in SCEP-SOA, semantic strategies are proposed and semantic components are integrated in SCEP-SOA to insure the good understanding and interpretation of planning information exchanged between various planning systems.