2. Focus
1. Introduction
2. Cloud and Cloud Computing
3. Working models- Deployment and Service
4. Supply chain management in the cloud
5. Food traceability: The potential of cloud computing
6. Cloud Computing-Food Safety System Data
7. Cloud computing in Agriculture
8. Visual representation of Cloud Computing in Food Industry
3. Introduction
Cloud Computing provides us a means by which
we can access the applications as utilities, over
the Internet. It allows us to create, configure, and
customize applications online.
With Cloud Computing users can access database
resources via the internet from anywhere for as
long as they need without worrying about any
maintenance or management of actual resources.
Source: L.N. Chavali, Cloud Computing in Agriculture
4. What is Cloud?
The term Cloud refers to a Network or Internet.
In other words, we can say that Cloud is something, which is
present at remote location. Cloud can provide services over
network, i.e., on public networks or on private networks, i.e.,
WAN, LAN or VPN.
Applications such as e-mail, web conferencing,
customer relationship management (CRM),
all run in cloud.
5. What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing refers to manipulating,
configuring, and accessing the applications online.
It offers online data storage, infrastructure and application.
Cloud Computing is both a combination of software and
hardware based computing resources delivered as a
network service.
6. Conceptual view of Cloud Computing
Differences between conventional and cloud
computing
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PUBLIC CLOUD
• The Public Cloud allows
systems and services to be
easily accessible to the
general public. Public cloud
may be less secure because
of its openness, e.g., e-mail.
PRIVATE CLOUD
• The Private Cloud
allows systems and
services to be accessible
within an organization.
It offers increased
security because of its
private nature.
HYBRID CLOUD
• The Hybrid Cloud is
mixture of public and
private cloud. However, the
critical activities are
performed using private
cloud while the non-critical
activities are performed
using public cloud.
Deployment Models
9. Software as a
service
(SaaS)
Through this service
delivery, model end
users use the software
application services
directly over network
according to on-demand
basis. In this type,
service only required
administrator & cloud
consultants. Example
salesforce, drop box and
Google applications
such as Email, Google
drive, talk etc.
Platform as a
service
(PaaS)
Cloud providers deliver
a computing platform,
typically including
operating system,
programming language
execution environment,
database, and web
server. This type service
only software developer
required for deployment
of software, Example
Google application
engine, window Azure,
force.com etc.
Infrastructure
as a service
(IaaS)
Resources can easily be
scaled up, depending
upon the demand from
the user, services being
charged in a pay-per use
model. Network
administrator &
programmer required
for Iaas services,
Example Amazon web
service, IBM, HP etc.
Service Models
13. WHAT IS SUPPLY CHAIN?
Flow of products and services from:
Raw materials manufacturers
Intermediate products manufacturers
End product manufacturers
Wholesalers and distributors and
Retailers
•Connected by transportation and storage activities
•Integrated through information, planning, and integration activities
•Cost and service levels
14. Supply Chain Management:-
The design and management of seamless, value-added process across
organizational boundaries to meet the real needs of the end customer
-Institute for Supply Management
Managing supply and demand, sourcing raw materials and parts,
manufacturing and assembly, warehousing and inventory tracking,
order entry and order management, distribution across all channels,
and delivery to the customer
- The Supply Chain Council
15. SCM
Cloud
computing
SCM in
the cloud
High Performance-Delivered
New cloud computing technologies are enabling
breakthrough innovations in supply chain
management (SCM) applications delivered
via SaaS (software as a service) models.
Interaction of Cloud Computing with SCM
17. Volatility is the new normal Data volumes are surging
What new capabilities does cloud computing
bring to supply chain management?
End-to-end visibility has
arrived
Digital technologies are
industrial grade
18. Understanding what cloud computing can do for
supply chains
• Real-time visibility
• Seamless collaboration
• Highly evolved operating
models
• Actionable insights
• Automated execution
• Enhanced, accelerated
innovation
• Enhanced responsiveness
• Proactive prevention
• Last mile postponement
• Maximum efficiency
• Organizational flexibility
• Personalized experiences
19. Food Traceability: The potential of cloud computing
Farm to
fork
visibility
Surprisingly
cost
effective
Streamlines
complexity
Speed of
data
sharing
Source: Matt Ferro, Food Traceability : The potential of cloud computing, 2014
20. Cloud Computing-Food Safety System Data
• In a global economy, supply chains are growing more complex and extensive. The ingredient list of a
typical processed food product found on a store shelf can easily reach 50.
• a modern food producer may have hundreds of unique suppliers with ingredients passing through many
different hands before reaching the consumer. It’s easy to see how food producers at any point in the
supply chain are at risk.
• cloud-based ERP system should include comprehensive food safety management capabilities (FSMS) that
deliver manufacturing operations management, a dynamic, database-driven electronic HACCP program,
and easily produce traceability records instantly in a single solution. These systems are taking the lead in
helping food manufacturers comply and excel in today’s complex world.
Source: Cloud Computing Maximizes Usefulness of Food Safety System Data, By Tom Nessen and Jon Cowan
21. Cloud Computing In Agriculture
Source: L.N. Chavali, Cloud Computing in Agriculture
On-demand self-service: A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
Broad network access: Capabilities are available over the network & accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations).
Rapid elasticity: Cloud services can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time.
Measured service: Pay per use-capabilities is charged using a metered, fee-for-service, or advertising based billing model to promote optimization of resource use. Examples are measuring the storage, bandwidth, & computing resources consumed and charging for the number of active user accounts per month.
Resource pooling: The provider is computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using amulti-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassignedaccording to consumer demand. Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines.
Now, as every business becomes a digital business, digitization has the potential to transform the supply chain by making services more valuable, accessible and affordable. For digital technologies to create new supply chain opportunities, a new perspective is needed.
Organizations should reimagine the supply chain as a digital supply network that unites not just physical flows of products and services, but also talent, information and finance. In an abstract sense, people and data—as well as materials, products and supplies—must travel together across the extended enterprise.
1.Although unstable conditions are familiar terrain to supply chain professionals, few supply chains can accommodate the relentless speed and amplitude of volatilitytoday. Cloud computing facilitates enhanced responsiveness to supply chain disruptions.2. Because most data technologies have been adopted in piecemeal fashion, enterprise data is vastly underutilized. To unlock the value of external and internaldata, companies must start to treat it as a supply chain, enabling data to flow through the entire organization—and out to its ecosystem of partners. By leveraging this data, cloud solutions facilitate the actionable insights that make digital supply networks intelligent.
3. The flow of goods can now be managed with digital tools that leverage high volumes of data from multiple sources, connect resources (machines and humans) in real-time, and embrace social media to collaborate beyond organization boundaries. By moving to the cloud, organizations can operate with increased flexibility and mass-customize their products and services.
4. New technologies and service providers make it possible for companies to turn their supply chains into end-to-end business operating strategies. The connected cloud enables the real-time collaboration that makes this possible.
The connected supply chain advantage means:• Real-time visibility: supply chains becomemore dynamic, secure and interactive• Seamless collaboration: supply chaincapabilities are harmonized beyondphysical boundaries• Highly evolved operating models: product/service delivery is exponentially improvedto meet customers’ evolving demands.The intelligent supply chain advantage means:• Actionable insights: innovative data analysissupports advanced decision-making• Automated execution: seamless humanmachine interaction increases operationaleffiency• Enhanced, accelerated innovation:digital inspires and supports creativeadvances in design, personnel, operationsand customer relationships.The scalable supply chain advantage means:• Maximum effiency: integration of people,process and technology• Organizational flxibility: digital plug-andplay enablers provide natural “confiureand re-confiure” capabilities• Personalized experiences: channel-centricsupply networks help foster individualizedproducts and services.The rapid supply chain advantage means:• Enhanced responsiveness: using betterinformation and sophisticated analytics tointerpret and react speedily to disruptions,including demand and supply signals• Proactive prevention: decision support,driven by predictive analytics, helps toconfim reliability and rapid adaptability• Last mile postponement: swift repurposingof organizational assets at short noticehelps to ensure that supplies always meetchanging demands.
Farm to fork visibility: The complexity of the food supply chain in combination with increasedpublic concern and awareness of the origin of even minute ingredients have put pressure onfoodservice operators to provide product genealogies. A cloud-based platform enables all collaboratingparties to see exactly where each ingredient is in the supply chain in real time, whether they are in theoffice or out in the field and whether they are using a smartphone, tablet, or laptop.Surprisingly cost effective: Costs associated with traditional software solutions such as systemupgrades, virus patches, and database management are eliminated with cloud computing. Rather thanpaying high upfront fees for hardware and software, a third party solution provider offers the cloud based service in exchange for a monthly subscription fee.
Streamlines complexity: Multiple suppliers, different protocols, global sourcing – few companieshave the capability to confidently navigate the array of obstacles to visibility into the food supplychain. But proponents of cloud-based traceability applications suggest such solutions “can capturedata from all of these sources, translate it into common formats and integrate it into appropriateapplications for processing.”