1. European Co-ordination Project on COllaborative DEmand and Supply NETworks What partners mission tools and expected results... CO-DESNET is

2. The project mission European Co-ordination Project on COllaborative DEmand and Supply NETworks through the European economic and academic landscape the scientific knowledge on large scale collaborative demand and supply network management problems, tools, solutions. Toand co-ordinate spread

3. Belgium Sweden UK Hungary France Germany Greece Ireland Poland Israel Italy The partners Universities Enterprises Research centres From several European and not EC Countries Co-ordinator partner: Polytechnic of Turin prof. Agostino Villa 22 CO-DESNET

4. The duration The duration of the project officially funded by the European Commission 3 years No limits The expected duration of the project mission boosted by the EC European Co-ordination Project on COllaborative DEmand and Supply NETworks

5. CO-DESNET should act as an exposition virtual place, when universities and industrial bodies interested in SCM issues, make themselves visible each others. The opportunity to boost this connection could be theEXCHANGE OF USEFUL MATERIAL The way to make this connection is the WEB PORTAL CO-DESNET The tools www.codesnet.polito.it Management procedures Data and performance evaluators Information on events Contacts

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7. INFORMATION AGENCY DISCUSSION FORUM LIBRARY and LABORATORY CO-DESNET In other words, we think that CO-DESNET web portal should seem to a VIRTUAL RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT SERVICE without real walls, but with virtual rooms and services to visit with the mission of connecting experts and users in CO-DESNET field and spread related knowledge.

8. Let’s suppose that the visitor who will enter the portal is an industrial user. let’s suppose this user have some kind of problem to manage in his enterprise related to SCM. He can check if there is some specific event in the future about his kind of problem He can check if there is someone in the chat room/virtual forum/newsgroup somehow expert or interested in his specific situation Finally he can refer to the virtual library, looking for a solution procedure Or to the laboratory, looking for a set of data or a case study that seems to his situation, or for a set of indicators useful to evaluate his performances and to clear his own position. CO-DESNET &

9. The key + + VIRTUAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT Simple translator between user problem and Codesnet library/laboratory No-stop link between business user and academic research department CO-DESNET All procedures/data and indicators stored are presented in a standardized language

10. Goals Encourage the approach between research centres and companies within scientific themes and problems Address the applied science, like the Supply Network Management, to such a language that does not take the potential users away; does not lose the contact with real problems Address the applied science, like the Supply Network Management, to such a language that does not take the potential users away; does not lose the contact with real problems Make a scientific paper attractive and easily comprehensible for a business person CO-DESNET

11. Coordination - Spreading Action Today partners list EDU Enterprises CO-DESNET VIRTUAL INSTITUTE US co-ordination projects The future

12. agostino.villa@polito.it irene.cassarino@polito.it CO-DESNET Turin, September 17, 2004 - CODESNET kick off meeting