warehousing process

IRI: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/construct/WarehousingProcess

Defined In: https://spec.industrialontologies.org/ontology/supplychain/SupplyChain/

SubClass Of: business process

Class Hierarchy

owl:Thingbfo:entitybfo:occurrentbfo:processplanned processbusiness processwarehousing process

Definition

business process of storing products (material products) in a storage facility for future use

Semi-Formal Definition:

every instance of ‘warehousing process’ is defined as exactly an instance of ‘business process’ that ‘occurs in’ some ‘storage facility’ and ‘has occurrent part’ some ‘storage process’ and is ‘prescribed by’ some ‘warehousing plan specification’

Examples

  • the process of counting and storing a shipment of external hard drives at an Amazon Fulfillment Center

Formal Axioms

First-Order Logic Definition

WarehousingProcess(x) ↔ BusinessProcess(x) ∧ ∃p∃w∃f((StorageProcess(p) ∧ WarehousingPlanSpecification(w) ∧ StorageFacility(f)) ∧ occursIn (x,f) ∧ hasOccurrentPart(x,p) ∧ prescribedBy (x,w))

Description Logic