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ABSTRACT
The ability of systems or organisations to provide services to, and accept services from, other systems or organisations is the fundamental tenet of interoperability. This paper introduces supply chain interoperability and proposes it as a metric to facilitate supply chain management performance analysis. Interoperability can be considered a similarity metric with regard to a set of characteristics. Our methodology adapts and expands an interoperability measurement tool initially developed in and for a military context. Through an illustrative example, we demonstrate the assessment of interoperability across a supply chain, where participants are described using deterministic and stochastic characters. Our measurement methodology can assist in efficiently directing resources to best improve interoperability between and among the various elements of a supply chain.
Acknowledgement
The authors wish to acknowledge the assistance of Mr. George Antonopoulos (MSc Mathematics—University of Athens).
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Notes on contributors
Christos E. Chalyvidis
Christos E. Chalyvidis is a lecturer in the Hellenic Air Force Academy and in the Staff officer School of HAF War College. He received an MSc in Logistics from University of Piraeus and his PhD at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He has 21 years of military experience in defense logistics and systems support. His research interests include supply chain performance measurement and interoperability.
Jeffrey A. Ogden
Jeffrey A. Ogden is currently Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management within the Department of Operational Sciences at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He earned his MBA and PhD in Supply Chain Management from Arizona State University. His undergraduate degree is in Accounting from Weber State University. He is the co-author of a Supply Chain Management textbook. His award-winning purchasing and supply chain management research has been published in many academic journals to include Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Logistics Management and International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. His primary research interests and areas of publication include purchasing strategies, insourcing/outsourcing, contracts and supply chain performance measurement.
Alan W. Johnson
Alan W. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Operational Sciences at the United States Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University, MS in Engineering Management from AFIT and PhD in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech. His research interests include reliability and maintainability modelling, transportation planning and space logistics. He is a retired Air Force officer.
John M. Colombi
Dr John M. Colombi is Associate Professor and Program Chair for Systems Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in 1996 and MSEE in 1992 both from AFIT, and his BSEE degree from the University of Massachusetts (Lowell). He has 21 years of military experience as a developmental engineer, with assignments in aircraft systems engineering, biometrics/information security and communications networking.
His current research interests include systems and enterprise architecture, unmanned /autonomous system design, complex adaptive systems, acquisition process modelling and human systems integration.
Thomas C. Ford
Thomas C. Ford is a senior systems engineer with Integrity Applications Incorporated, Dayton, OH, and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology. He obtained his PhD in Systems Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology and recently retired from the United States Air Force with 22 years of engineering and management experience. His research interests are systems architecting, systems resiliency and systems interoperability. He can be contacted via e-mail at [email protected].