A Grammar-Based Supply Chain Process Modeling Method

In this paper, a modeling method of supply chain process (SCP) based on SCP grammar definition and analyst is proposed. In this method, a SCP is taken as a whole sentence. On basis of this idea, the syntactic structure of supply chain process is defined and analyzed by considering the characteristics of SCP and using mainly two natural language processing method -- phrase structure grammar (PSG) and augmented transition network (ATN). This SCP modeling method can be used on establishing SCP parser for SCP design, analyst and redesign.