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Welcome to iSurf Project Web Site
Contract Number   :   213031
Project Acronym   :   iSurf
Project Name   :   An Interoperability Service Utility for Collaborative Supply Chain Planning across Multiple Domains Supported by RFID Devices
Priority   :   Objective ICT-2007-1.3: ICT in support of the networked enterprise
Total Cost (€)   :   3.129.337 €
Commission Funding (€)   :   1.997.340 €

 Partners:

Participant no.

Participant organization name

Part. short name

Country

1

(coordinator)

Middle East Technical University

METU

Turkey
Turkey

2

Software Research, Development, Consultation Company

SRDC

Turkey
Turkey

3

INTEL Performance Learning Solutions Limited, Ireland

INTEL

Ireland
Ireland

4

TXT e-solutions S.P.A

TXT

Italy
Italy

5

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institute Manufacturing Engineering and Automation

FhG-IPA

Germany
Germany

6

Uninova – Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias

UNINOVA

Portugal
Portugal

7

Fratelli Piacenza S.p.A.

Piacenza

Italy
Italy

 

iSURF Project is enabling the collaborative supply chain planning across multiple domains for a
flexible and dynamic environment and especially to facilitate European SMEs participation to
collaborative supply chain planning process. 


Main objectives and current achievements of iSURF Project can be summarized as follows:


  1. Develop an Interoperability Service Utility in order to enable the interoperability with the existing enterprise legacy applications handling planning (such as ERPs, MRPs, APSs). For this purpose, these applications are wrapped as Web services conforming to the W3C standards, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)[1] and Web Services Description Language (WSDL)[2] and served over an enterprise service bus.
    1. iSURF Deliverable 4.4.1 is available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53
  2. Enable interoperability in exchanging inter-enterprise planning related data including forecasts, inventory and Point-of-Sale (POS) exceptions across domains. iSURF has contributed heavily to the OASIS SET TC[3] to develop the UN/CEFACT CCTS[4] based semantic definitions of electronic business documents and this specification is being used for this purpose.
    1. The source codes are available  from http://isurf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/isurf/trunk/   
    2. iSURF Deliverable  4.3.1 is available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53
    3. iSURF ISU tools have been deployed to a Cloud Provider, Amazon EC2,  http://79.125.15.30:9090/ISU/web/
  3. Enable designing electronic business documents by using the core components in the UN/CEFACT Core Component Library (CCL) by constraining them to the defined context. iSURF developed the eDoCreator tool that provides a graphical environment for the customization and re-use of UN/CEFACT CCTS based document schemas. Using this tool, we developed ten new UBL documents for exchanging planning data according to CPFR®. These new documents are currently being analyzed by UBL PCS Committee and will be a part of UBL 2.1 Schemas. 
    1. iSURF Deliverables  4.1.1 and 4.2.1 are available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53
    2. iSURF eDoCreator tool has been deployed to a Cloud Provider (Amazon EC2) based on a request from the UBL Community, http://79.125.15.30:8080/srdc/eDoCreator/
    3. The viewlets presenting how to use this tool are available in http://www.srdc.com.tr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=229&Itemid=203&lang=en
  4. Provide an open source smart product infrastructure for SMEs in order to enable SMEs to acquire the supply chain visibility information in real time from the distributed RFID devices. The iSURF smart product infrastructure provides the SMEs with the capabilities of gathering product information through RFID devices, filtering and aggregating the collected data and putting them into a business context. This smart product infrastructure is based on EPCGlobal[5]  standards.
    1. The source codes are available  from http://isurf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/isurf/trunk/
    2. iSURF Deliverables 5.1.1, 5.2.1 and 5.3.1  are available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53
  5. Enable the definition and execution of inter-enterprise collaboration across multiple domains through the Service Oriented Collaborative Supply Chain Planning Process Definition and Execution Platform. For this purpose, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishments (CPFR®)[6] standard is used. The predefined CPFR® building blocks are combined in to a business process and executed through a standard, machine processable business process specification language, namely, OASIS ebXML Business Specification Language, (ebBP)[7].
    1. The source codes are available  from http://isurf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/isurf/trunk/
    2. The viewlets of this tool is available from http://195.142.27.166:8080/iSurf/CPP_Viewlet/
    3. iSURF Deliverables 6.1.1, 6.2.1 and 6.4.1 are available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53
  6. Support the architecture with a Global Data Synchronization[8] Service Utility which conforms to the GS1[9]standard in order to ensure the accuracy and reliability of master data used in the supply chain by developing standard based open platform for SMEs.
    1. The source codes are available  from http://isurf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/isurf/trunk/
    2. iSURF Deliverables  7.1.1, 7.2.1 and 7.3.1 are available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53
  7. Ensure the security and privacy of both the real time visibility data gathered through RFID devices and the planning and forecasting messages exchanged across enterprises. The necessary identity management, security and privacy mechanisms for sharing visibility data gathered through RFID devices and for exchanging the planning data between supply chain partners are be based on the OASIS standards such as XACML[10] and SAML[11].
    1. iSURF Deliverables 4.5.1, 5.4.1 and 7.4.1  are available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53
  8. Demonstrate iSURF integrated architecture through a Pilot application. The iSURF architecture will be deployed in the premises Fratelli Piacenza S.p.A., a manufacturer of noble fibres fabrics and pure cashmere clothing and accessories, supplier to almost all luxury apparel brands (including Italian ones among which Zegna, Brioni, Canali, Gucci and international ones like Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Escada, Basler, Celine, Chanel) and high end multi brand retailers. Till now the requiremet analysis and design of pilot application have been finalized. The deployment will be finalized by May 2010.
    1. iSURF Deliverables 9.1.1, 9.1.2 and 9.2.1 are available from http://www.srdc.com.tr/isurf/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=53

 

 


 

[1] Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/

[2] Web Services Description Language (WSDL), http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl

[3] OASIS Semantic Support for Electronic Business Document Interoperability (SET) Technical Committee, http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc home.php?wg abbrev=set 

[4] UN/CEFACT Core Components Technical Specification, http://www.unece.org/cefact/ebxml/CCTS_V2-01_Final.pdf

[5] EPCglobal. Electronic Product Code Global. http://www.gs1.org/productssolutions/epcglobal/

[6] Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards (VICS), CPFR - An overview, May 2004,  http://committees.vics.org/committees/cpfr/CPFR_Overview_US-A4.pdf, last visited on August 2008.

[7] OASIS ebBP. ebXML Business Process. http://docs.oasis-open.org/ebxml-bp/2.0.4/OS/

[8] GDSN. GS1 Global Data Synchronisation Network. http://www.gs1.org/productssolutions/

gdsn/.

[9] GS1. Global Standard One. http://www.gs1.org/.
 

[10] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/

Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 November 2009 )