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Chapter.XV
Development.of..
an.Ontology.to.
Improve.Supply.Chain.
Management.(SCM)..
in.the.Australian.
Timber.Industry
Jaquel ne Blake, Un vers ty of Southern Queensland, Austral a
Wayne Pease, Un vers ty of Southern Queensland, Austral a
Abstract
This chapter proposes an ontology using Web ontology language (OWL) for the
Australian timber sector that can be used in conjunction with Semantic Web services
to provide effective and cheap business-to-business (B2B) communications.
From the perspective of the timber industry sector, this study is important because
supply chain efficiency is a key component in an organisation??™s strategy to gain a
competitive advantage in the marketplace. Strong improvement in supply chain
performance is possible with improved B2B communication, which is used both for
building trust and providing real-time marketing data.
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