A knowledge management UML-based framework to support collaboration in the supply chain management process*

Resumen

In the most general cases, collaborative activities imply a distributed decision-making process which involves several supply chain nodes. Therefore in this paper, by means of a literature review, and by also considering the deficiencies of existing proposals, a collaborative knowledge management UML-based framework supported is proposed. In addition, this proposal synthesizes existing knowledge, and it not only fulfils, but enriches, each component with the modeller’s own knowledge. Keywords: Knowledge management (KM), UML, framework, collaborative supply chain (CSC)