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Additive Manufacturing (AM), also known as rapid prototyping or 3D printing, is widely used across various industries, including medical products and automotive spare parts. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated its adoption to address supply chain disruptions caused by shortages in production resources and logistics constraints. However, as AM integrates into supply chains, structural changes in nodes and data flows create new challenges in information sharing and data standardization. Ontologies have proven effective in enhancing data interoperability and improving information quality through semantic modeling. Despite this, a comprehensive approach that combines AM and logistics ontologies to address cross-domain challenges remains underexplored. This study develops an ontology-based supply chain model for AM by integrating existing AM and logistics ontologies. Using the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM), the proposed ontology is constructed and instantiated with a sample dataset for validation. The results provide a foundational framework for improving data management and coordination in AM supply chains.