iSURF -An Interoperability Service Utility for Collaborative Supply Chain Planning across Multiple Domains: Textile Supply Chain Pilot 1

One of the key challenges in supply chain collaboration is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chain planning process to handle rapidly changing customer demands. Trading partners usually have different competencies based on their business strategies and investments. They have varying sources of information and also dissimilar views of the marketplace. The distributed intelligence of multiple trading partners needs to be collaboratively exploited in the planning and fulfilment of customer demand in the supply chain so as to enhance supply chain responsiveness. This paper discusses the technical issues to be addressed for achieving an intelligent collaborative supply chain planning network in which distributed intelligence of multiple trading partners are exploited in the planning and fulfilment of customer demand in the supply chain. This work is supported by the European Commission through ICT213031-iSURF project.