Decision-Making for Supplier Selection Based on Ontology and Rules

Knowledge sharing among the supply chain´s constituents can be effective to promote supply chain coordination. This paper we present our work on ontology based on SCOR and analysis rules of supply chain. And then an issue of decision-making for supplier selection is researched by inference. Finally a coordination model based on ontology and rules is developed. As the ontology is a standard, explicit and formalized description for shared conceptual model, the supply chain enterprises can be integrated by applying semantic express, shared knowledge described by ontology and automatic inference mechanism in supply chain management.