COMBINED APPROACH FOR ENTERPRISE MODELLING: CIMOSA AND SOA AS DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURE IN MARITIME LOGISTICS

One of the main characteristics of logistics and supply chain management is the ability to cope with changes and challenges within an enterprise and among many companies as well as those coming from the external factors such as regulations and the need for compliances. This could be done effectively by the help of process modelling which enables the organisation more capability to analyse processes and minimise the costs and risks by process optimisation. So far the process modelling activity is mainly used in the area of classic manufacturing such as the discrete parts manufacturing industry like the automotive and mainly within a specific company and not quite discussed or implemented for the across-entity-business like logistics in the maritime goods transport environment where many actors rather than only suppliers or customers are involved. The paper describes an approach followed in the European project EFFORTS (EFFective Operations in ports), which combines CIMOSA (CIM Open System Architecture) with SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) to achieve flexibility and transparency in the area of seaport operations and transport logistics.