Sustainability Reference Architecture

The Sustainability Reference Architecture (SRA) contains Architecture Building Blocks (ABB) needed to implement a solution for the use cases described in the Sustainable Supply Chain Framework (SSCF). ABBs cover the all dimensions of a solution, as describe in TOGAF, so it covers the business and the digital aspects of a solution for a specific use case.

ABBs are not product-specific, but rather product agnostic and in the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) concept of the OMG represent the Computational Independent Models (CIM) and the Plattform Independent Models (PIM). ABBs can and should be reused across multiple use case whenever possible to accelerate solution development, reduce cost and improve quality of the solution.

ABBs are build on architecture models in a standard notation like BPMN, UML and ArchiMate. The SSCF Wiki provides not only the visual representation (diagram) of a model as picture, but also a downloadable file for each model in a standardizes XML format for the different notations. This allows the SSCF users to import those reference models into their architecture modeling tools assuming they support those standard notations and allow the import of models. Our community wants to thank BizzDesign for providing us their HOPEX tool for free, so we can use a professional modeling environment for the SRA and other SSCF components.

The ABBs in the SRA are structured by use case and beside diagrams contain a textual description of the individual building blocks. As ABBs can be reused across use cases, the description of the ABBs in the SRA might appear more then once. While this duplication of content is not the most efficient way to describe the SRA, we believe it is the most effective.

In the beta version (0.5) of the SSCF, the SRA will be empty, as we are still building the content for version 1.0.