| dc.description.abstract | Thanks to the rapid development of transportation and information technology (IT), and because of the trends of globalization, the environment of marketplace is changing. Therefore, demands for new logistical concepts are now arising, and Global Logistics Management is one of the most important. For an effective and efficient global logistics management system, it is not only necessary to design and plan the relative processes, system and metrics, companies but also have to connect and integrate the varied information of marketing, production, inventory, and transportation within the supply chain. Because the integrated information can help managers to analyze, forecast and make decision. Besides, supply chain partners must understand, communicate and share, and learn about the different aspects of all the operations in their global logistics. Therefore, it is sufficient and necessary to have a standard reference process for global logistics project execution because this could avoid some unnecessary misunderstandings and mistakes so as to facilitate the execution of plans.
In this study, we develop a reference model named Ontological Global Logistics Model (OGLM) which can help companies to construct their own global logistics. Our methodology fuses the essential concept of global logistics with the ideas of IDEF5 method and decomposed method of SCOR Model. According to the explicit definitions of terms and relationship, and through the extensive literature review in enterprise and global logistics domain, we propose “what are the critical issues of global logistics?”, “How these issues are executed?”, and “what are the relationships between them?” Moreover, a five-step Ontological Development Process (ODP) would be introduced. Based on the ODP, our OGLM could be structured into three levels of decomposition with increasing depth and complexity. Finally, a case study about the best practice of global logistics would be exhibited to evaluate our OGLM. | en_US |