Digitalization Railway Supply Chain 4.0: Enterprise Architecture Perspective
Mailasan Jayakrishnan (1*), Abdul Karim Mohamad (2), Abu Abdullah (3)
1) Faculty of Information & Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100, Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia
*m031620010[at]student.utem.edu.my
2) Centre for Strategic, Quality and Risk Management, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100, Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia
3) Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, 76100, Durian Tunggal, Melaka, Malaysia
Abstract
Digitalization has been a challenging time for Railway Supply Chain (RSC) to build, maintain and sustain its massive asset foundation, to provide transportation service and to run the system, which is efficient, safe and secure. However, as we begin the process of digitization toward Industry 4.0 and preparing for Industry 5.0 the process involving a substantial change in digital and computer-based technologies need to be integrated to improve their performance. Therefore, Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the ideal platform to increase the information flows and integration of supply chain within Malaysia Transportation Industry (MTI). We are designing a high-performance EA RSC framework that visualize, analyses and maintain all RSC indicators to stay in control through connecting and integrating a broad range of systematic and structural information within visual appearance that can construct a comprehensible, value focus framework of what is and what to be for MTI. Thus, decision making process in each tearing of RSC will increase the value in embracing analytics for shortening procurement cycle time and aspire to guide in a modern era by switching over toward paperless decision-making process that forecasts railway supply chain scenarios and analyses optimal outcomes.
Keywords: Digitalization, Enterprise Architecture, Industry 4.0, Information System, Malaysian Transportation Industry and Railway Supply Chain 4.0
Topic: Information Engineering