6 – Technology and Supply Chain

- Business Intelligence (BI)

- Simulation Modeling
- Industry 4.0
- Business Process Management (BPM)
→ ERP
- Online market place
5 Major SCh Drivers Of SCh Management

1 PRODUCTION 2 INVENTORY
What, how and when to produce How much to make and how
much to store

INFORMATION
The basis for making these
decisions

4 TRANSPORTATION 3 LOCATION
How and when to move the
product
DATA Where best to do what
activity

Need to find the right combination of responsiveness and

efficiency in each of these drivers
Remember… SCh Management within the entire Organization
 Four Technology groups that can be used
to complement SCh systems

1. Business Intelligence (BI)

2. Simulation Modeling
3. Industry 4.0
4. Business Process Management
(BPM)
1) Business Intelligence
BI systems helps companies to understand what is happening within
their own organization and within the market they serve.

BI systems collect, store,

reports, but mostly – ANALYZE
DATA
BI encompasses a variety of tools and methods that can help
organizations make better decisions by analyzing “their” data.

1. BI – Business Intelligence
» a) Bar codes Data
» b) RFID Generators
» c) IoT
» Social Media
» 5G
Data
→ BD- Big data
Storage
→ Cloud Computing
➢ BA- Business Analytics
➢ Data Science
➢ Cognitive Computing Data
Analytics
a) BAR CODE
b) RFID
5.i.1- Bar codes

• Are symbols (in the form of lines with different widths and
lenghts) that can be scanned electronically using laser or
camera-based systems.

• Encode information such as product, serial and batch

numbers.

• Enable parties like retailers, manufacturers, transport

providers and hospitals to automatically identify and
track products as they move through the SCh.

• Fills in the SCh BIG DATA

http://www.wikihow.com/Read-12-Digit-UPC-Barcodes
EAN/ UPC/GS1/ EPC (started in the 60´s)
Get Company name and other info from bar codes:
http://gepir.gs1.org/index.php/search-by-gtin

UPC- Universal Product Code- 12-14

digit • They must be read one at a
EAN- European Article Number-13 digit time
by EAN Int.
• They have fixed and limited
information
The GS1 introduced a unified 14 digit
numbering: – Name of company
– Name of product
EPC - Electronic Product Code → UPC – Description
– Identifier
GS1 company look up: http://www.gs1.org/barcodes – Price, etc,
GS1 US is the US standards organization, which establishes identification
standards for various industries • Within certain environments,
might not be read
AECO – Spain – Where to get a Barcode in Spain
http://www.gs1es.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Iniciacion-a-la-codificacion.pdf
Bar codes numbering per
Country and other special use:
Bar codes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEQJxNDSKAE

• Bar codes and RFID are different concepts

http://www.inlogic.com/rfid/rfid_vs_barcode.aspx
RFID Technology

• Wireless non-contact use of

radio-frequency electromagnetic
field to transfer data.

• What is needed:

• An RFID reader activates the

microchip inside the Tag. To
which the Tag returns its signal

TAG + DEVISE (Scanner) +

ANTENA + INFORMATION
RFID and Supply Chain
 Main Benefits: Traceability of your products
• Identify, trace and track information
throughout the SCh.

• Provides suppliers, manufacturers,

distributors and retailers precise real time
information about the products.
• Accurate knowledge of the inventory results in
lower labor cost

• Simplified business processes and improved

efficiency.

• Cut ordering lead time and inventory control

cost, increase inventory information accuracy,
help avoid stockouts and boost the number of
inventory turns.

Future - Store RFID Technology

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBXJ9Razofw
 Improve profitability
IoT is a network of through automated
intelligent physical objects monitoring and alerting of
and things that have the assets, fleet, production or
capability to connect to a workers. Leverage AI and
network to be able to send machine learning to gain
and receive data hidden IoT insights.
Shorten adoption of IoT
with digital twins.
Transform ERP with real
time IoT data.

c)
2) SIMULATION MODELING
Allows companies to
- create a model of a
situation or
- a factory or
- a SCh or
- a delivery route
- and then subject that
model to different
inputs and different
situations to observe
what happens (what if)
2) SIMULATION MODELING
2a) Business Intelligence
- AI
– Simulation Modeling
– Gaming
– Virtual Reality
– Augmented Reality
– 3D printing

https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/2013/07/distance-calculator.html
http://www.shiptraffic.net/2001/05/sea-distances-calculator.html

The Beergame – beergame.org

https://forio.com/simulate/mbean/near-beer-game/run/ Get pictures of robots used
Logistics 4.0 - Augmented Reality Use Cases - Bing video
in SCh & share with others.
 3) INDUSTRY 4.0
Within Operations (Manuf, MM, Purch, Logistics)
 INDUSTRY 4.0 It fosters what has been called a "smart factory".
Within modular structured smart factories, cyber-physical systems monitor physical processes,
create a virtual copy of the physical world and make decentralized decisions.

Industry 4.0
➢ Robots
✓ Artificial Intelligence
➢ Cloud Computing
➢ System Integration
➢ Cybersecurity
➢ Bid Data
➢ BI
➢ IoT
➢ 3D
➢ Augmented Reality
➢ Simulation
➢ Block Chain
➢ Automated Guided Vehicles
➢ Voice Activation
https://www.moxanederl
and.nl/smart_factory/
Get an example of 1 Company that highly utilizes technology in its Supply
Chain and provide examples of such technologies & a video

except Amazon

Future RFID Store - YouTube

4) Business Process Management

It is a way for companies to carry out a

continuous, incremental process of
improving their operational performance
4) BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

• Business Intelligence
» Data Mining
» Business Analytics
» Cybersecurity
» GPS
– Control Towers
– ERP
• MRP
• Materials Master Data https://www.onenetwork.com/supply-chain-
• Suppliers Master Data management-solutions/supply-chain-control-towers/
• Warehouse Master Data
• Customers Master Data Watch the video and capture
• Customers Relationship Management several concepts behind CT,
• Accounting Master Data BPM and SChM.
What is
ERP??

https://www.netsuite.com/portal/products/erp.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_OW5vp9Ufk
Very clear – 3min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qys-562kp4
through min 2.21
• Make Businesses more efficient
• Umbrella term for quite complicated software solutions
• Helps to compile the number of items needed to manufacture a new or existing product and its
cost
• Allows to set the supply chain needed to build, manufacture or produce a product
• Track inventory, compile orders, keep tracks or wants and needs of your customers…
• Gathers data from multiple functions
• Monitors all modules within the Supply Chain
• Fill paper work and deliver pretty complex reports
ERP & ERP SOFTWARES https://www.softwareadvice.com/erp/

The Access Group, AWERY, Harmony

IFS, Deltek, ERPAG, Brokermint, Workday
IQM, Microsoft Dynamics - Axapta
Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, World, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle
Fusion, PeopleSoft, Oracle Retail,[7] NetSuite
E2Shop, Odoo
SAP - mySAP, SAP Business All-in-One, SAP Business ByDesign, SAP
Business One, SAP Business Suite, SAP S/4HANA[7]
Sage Intacct, ICI, e-Promis. Landing-Easy-WMS (mecalux.es)
 5) ONLINE MARKET PLACE – APP´s

1. The “amazon” for tool shops (sale and rental)

2. Courier-Parcel transportation → connect online stores with

couriers and find the best rates: easyship, ecoparcel
packlink, clickpost.

3. Consolidators → connects carriers with companies sending

isolated single pallets

4. Storage → provides flexibility for one time needs and small .

quantities
5) ONLINE MARKET PLACE – APP´s

Main Benefits:

- Connects service providers with small customers.

- Reduces the un-used capacity.
- Offers better rates for small users.
- Access to a wide variety of providers in one place.
- Could reduce inventories (with the appropriate
forecast visibility).
- Watch outs- real time information, accuracy,
speed on answer or reaction.
CONCLUSION:

TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPLY CHAIN

HELPS TO COLLECT ACCURATE
DATA FASTER, TO ANALYZE IT AND
PROACTIVELY ADAPT THE ACTIONS
TO THE MOST RECENT NEEDS BEING
ABLE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF
PRODUCTS AND SERVICE
OPTIMIZING RESOURCES
DONE WITH THE SEMESTER! … almost…