Several studies have shown that the implementation of supply chain management (SCM) in the context of facilities management (FM) can resolve service delivery problems and provide significant benefit in cost savings and customer satisfaction. To utilize the benefits of SCM fully, the supply chain actors would require facilities' data, suppliers' information, and tools to share the information through a wide variety of users across the entire supply chain. Considering the wide range of spatial information used in the FM supply chain, this study develops a spatial data framework to manage data and disseminate information throughout a supply chain. The proposed framework uses Building Information Modeling (BIM) capabilities to accurately provide existing information about the inside of a building and geographic information system (GIS) to support the wide range of spatial analysis used in the logistics perspective of the supply chain. Also, semantic Web services are used to convey meaning and support the integration of information from all of these spatial, temporal, and informational dimensions. The concept of the semantic Web is applied in this study to provide semantic interoperability between BIM and GIS operations and to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology for the building and FM industries.
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Karan et al. (2014) studied this question.