To fully use the potentials of IoT it takes a seamless interconnection of things and single procedures across value chains and a smooth collaboration among all participants involved. The method of choice is a common language based on the Semantic Web and its ontology. While already used in business-to-customer (B2C) environments, SC3 will prepare it for the far more complex field of business-to-business (B2B), namely the semiconductor industry.

As a Semantic Web model and its ontologies of semiconductor supply chains, a Digital Reference (DR) platform for the complete industry will act as a lingua franca to handle data of different quality and structure from various sources. Integrated and presented in a unified view, a common understanding of concepts across all data sources is defined, empowering humans and computers to collaborate and converse in a common language.

Providing the benefits of digital twins, the Generic Data Model (GDM) as a simulation-based planning system for the semiconductor supply chain is a gate opener for a comprehensive collaborative supply chain management with access also to external parties. And, based on the Semantic Web, DR will act as a data structure providing a common framework to share and reuse data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. Fusing GDM with DR will channel them to an even broader community and other industrial domains.