Supply chain technology applications

Information systems — by virtue of expectations for improvement and the effort, time, and expense involved in their implementation — are a prominent feature in supply chain improvement. The Preface of this book profiled eight categories of supply chain software that included hundreds of product choices. In many companies, the centerpiece of the supply chain improvement effort is implementing information technology. 

The objectives here are to discuss the basics with regard to SCM and information technology. These include  

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Previous chapters touched on the role of information and associated processes and systems. Chapter 25 described supply chain technology applications. Chapter 23 described the work of the Supply-Chain Council and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (formerly CLM) in promoting supply chain process integration. Within the company. Section 16.3.3 described the S OP (Sales and Operations Planning) process for intermediate-term information exchange between operations and marketing. 

Big data supply chains and their impact on business will redefine supply chain applications, ft vdll enable sensing and predictive analytics that were previously only dreamed of by the early supply chain pioneers, ft will make traditional supply chain technologies obsolete, or legacy, applications. 

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Supply chain management processes as well as application technology and service operations can benefit from the introduction of this concept as well (see Chapters 18 and 22). 

The data held within marketing and supply applications are key inputs into the efficiency of the supply chain and provide the vital link that connects Information Technology to the physical world of raw materials, intermediate stock, finished inventory, business processes, and people. What is done with that data — how data are collected, processed, communicated, stored, or otherwise manipulated, determines their true value to any organization as Information Technology takes its place as an enabler for efficient enterprise coordination. 

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