Use latest technology to solve Traditional Supply Chain Problems - a brainstorming exercise

SCM and Technology

Information

• Data -> Information– Right Information in the Right Hands at the Right

time• Sources of data– Suppliers, contracts, inventory, – Demand Signals from Social feeds, market/causal

factors, • Information Processing• Consumers of Information and Analysis

Traditional Supply Chain

• Retail, Customers – Online/Home, Store– Realtime S&OP– Demand/Fulfillment – POS vs ZMOT

• Supply, Manufacturing – Strategy, Sourcing, Procurement

• Logistics, Warehousing– Fleet Management (UPS Orion)– Real-time execution and eventing

Top technology trends

• Mobile Workforce, Customers• Cloud – Anytime Anywhere, Elastic• Multi-Channel – Customers, ZMOT• Analytics/Prediction– BigData, Realtime Data Processing– User Profiling, Intent

Technologies to consider

• Streaming (Realtime and Batch)– Problem Solving, Execution, Retail/Pricing solutions

• Analytics and Dashboarding– BigData, DataStore, Processors

• CI/CD, VM – Productivity, Speed, Environments• Cloud – Scale, Security• UI Frameworks – Deployment, Dashboarding

Notes• Potential SCM Problems – Collate demand for each SKU, Geo, Store, Date,

signal_source dimensions– Realtime event (EDI, Internet) to track logistics

and asset tracking, Fleet Management– Adaptive and Collaborative Realtime planning

using SaaS APIs (incl third-party services)– Inventory, Warehousing and dock-door planning