Spatial Data Web Application in Supply
Chain Management
René Pietzsch September 15 2015

Outline
• About&eccenca
• Motivation
• Data&Flow
• Demo:&Influence&of&weather&on&shipping&reliability
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Who we are
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brox%IT(Solutions%GmbH
Gegründet:& 1998
Fokus: ITDConsulting
IPR: Initiierung/Leitung&eclipse.org/SMILA
eccenca&Enterprise&Search
Key&Accounts: Volkswagen,&Audi,&Skoda,&MAN
Telekom,&Daimler,&Bosch,&Siemens,
Continental,&Lecos
Umsatz&2014: >&3&mioEuro
AKSW%– Universität%Leipzig
&&Fraunhofer&IAIS
Führende&Linked&Data&Forschungseinheit&in
Europa.&Initiator&des&nationalen&Industrial&Data&
Space
Initiator: DBPedia,&Linked&GeoData&etc.
Betreiber:& Datenportal&der&EUDKommission
TeamDLeitung:& Prof.&Dr.&Sören&Auer
eccenca%GmbH
Gründung: 2013
Fokus: Produkte/Lösungen
Team&Size: 12
IPR: Linked&Data,&M2N&Synchronization,
Linking,&Authentication/Data&Security
Kunden: Volkswagen,&Daimler,&&Telekom,&Bosch,&WDR,
Continental,&Bosch,&Samsung
F&E&Projekte: LUCID,&E12,&GeoKnow,&Diachron,&…
Initiativen: MOBIVOC,&OSFP…
command& your&data!

eccenca offers full Tool Support of the Linked
Data Lifecycle
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• Extraction&/&Mapping
• Storage&/&Querying
• Manual&Revision&/&Authoring
• Linking&/&Fusion
• Classification&/&Enrichment
• Quality&/&Evolution
• Search&/&Browse&/&Explore
Interlinking/+
Fusing
Classification/+
Enrichment
Quality+
Analysis
Evolution+
/+Repair
Search/+
Browsing/+
Exploration
Extraction
Storage/+
Querying
Manual+
revision/+
authoring
Virtuoso
Quad&Store
Virtuoso
Sponger
eLDS
UI&Framework
eLDS
Repair
eLDS
UI&Framework
eLDS
Backend
eLDS
Data%Manager
eLDS
Data&Integration
eLDS
Ontology&Learner
eLDS
RDB(2(RDF
eLDS
Data&Manager
eLDS&NLP
Core&eccenca&USPs:
• Provenance&
Tracking
• Graph&Replication
• Data&Mapping
• Versioning
• Access&Control

eccenca Linked Data Suite
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Extraction Alignment Cleansing& Linking
Editing
Browsing
Querying
PublishingSynchronizing
Access&&&User&Rights&Management
Scalable&Infrastructure
eLDS%Backend
eLDS%Data%Integration
Vocabulary
Personalized&Sharing
eLDS%Data%Sharing
eLDS%Data
Manager

eccenca Linked Data Suite Architecture
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Motivation for the Supply Chain Use Case
• Visibility&and&transparency&in&the&information&flows&of&these&huge&supply&chain&networks&is&
a&real&challenge.
• Large&manufacturers&have&many&thousands&of&suppliers.
• A&unified&data&flow&is&currently&challenging&due&to:&
– Heterogeneous&distributed& systems&
– Dated&data&exchange&formats&and&standards&(e.g.,&EDI)
– NonDconformance&to&the&standards
• A&promising&technology&for&increasing&transparency&in&supply&chain&networks&is&Linked&
Data.
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Supply Chain Dashboard
• Powered&by&eccenca&Linked&Data&Suite
• Work&supported&by&the&GeoKnow&EU&
FP7&Project
• Supply&Chain&Visualization&
• Simulation&Environment
• Supplier&Score&Card&and&Metrics&
Editor
• Linking&with&external&Data
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Integrating Background Knowledge
• Historical&and&current&weather&
information&are&integrated
• Weather&and&supply&chain&related&
queries&can&be&issued&via&SPARQL
• News&and&social&media&streams&are&to&
be&integrated&as&sources&for&additional&
background&knowledge
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Xybermotive Integration
• Prove&of&concept&for&integration&with&the&commercial&
web&EDI&solution&xybermotive
• Data&exchange&via&LUCID&dataDendpoints&forming&a&
value&chain&network
• Real&time,&securely&encrypted&and&certificate&based&
exchange&of&arbitrary&company&data&(in&our&case&
inventory&information)
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http://data.aaa.de
http://data.ddd.de
http://data.ccc.de
http://data.bbb.de

Xybermotive Integration 2
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• POC&demonstrates&exchange&of&
inventory&data
• It&allows&for&searching&alternate&
supplier&in&the&whole&supply&chain&
network&based&on&that&data

Data Sources and Data Flow
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Data Conversion to RDF
Two&input&sources:
• Internal:&Exchanged&EDI&messages
– Conversion&to&a&controlled&RDF&vocabulary
• External:&External&data&sets
– Background&knowledge
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EDI Conversion
• Conversion&of&common&EDI&message&types
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eccenca RDB2RDF
• RDB2RDF&is
– a&flexible&query&rewriting&
engine
– based&on&W3C’s&R2RML&
– useable&as&ETLDTool&or&
SPARQL&server
• Exposes&relational&data&to&
a&Linked&Data&Layer
• Used&for&converting&EDI&
messages&and&external&
data&sets
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Linked Data Integration
• Separate&EDI&messages&become&a&connected&RDF&graph
– e.g.&shippings contain&links&to&corresponding& orders
• External&data&sets&can&be&integrated&as&background&knowledge
– e.g.&weather&statistics
• Individual&original&datasources can&be&queried&and&analyzed&as&a&single&source
• Schema&can&grow&and&be&extended&as&needed,&adapting&established&standard&vocabularies&
or&custom&domain&designs
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Supplier Score Card
• A&supplier&score&card&allows&the&performance&
assessment&of&each&supplier&based&on&various&metrics
• Supplier&scores&are&evaluated&onDtheDfly&based&on&
historic&and&currently&incoming&supply&chain&messages
• Goal:%Support%decision%making%in%supply%chain%
management
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eccenca Data Integration
• Integrates&a&set&of&heterogeneous&data&sources&into&a&single&consistent&linked&data&set:
– Translates&data&sources&with&different&schemata&to&a&consistent&RDF&schema (Mapping)
– Generates&links&between&related&entities&(Linking)
– Transformation&rules&clean&or&enrich&existing&data&(RDF2RDF&Transformation)
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Rule-driven Integration
• The&integration&process&is&driven&by&a&set&of&rules
– Linking&Rules
– Transformation&Rules
– Scoring%Rules%/%(KPI)%Calculations%/%Data%Aggregations%
• Intuitive&graphical&rule&editor
• Allows&detailed&evaluation&of&each&rule
• MachineDlearning&of&rules&possible,&e.g.&for&optimization
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Scoring Rules Editor
• Performance&metrics&are&userDdefined
• A&visual&builder&allows&the&specification&of&performance&metrics&through&an&intuitive&
interface
• Performance&metrics&may&utilize&integrated&information
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Example: Perfect Order Fulfillment
• For&each&order:&shipping&must&be&complete&and&on&time.
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Analytics
• Final&Step:&Analytics
• RapidMiner with&LOD&extensions
– RapidMiner is&a&tool&for&machine&learning,&data&mining,& text&mining,& predictive&analytics&and&
business&analytics
– LOD&extensions&developed& by&University&of&Mannheim&
• Use&of&other&BIDtools&possible&(via&SPARQL&endpoint&or&CSV)
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Analytics
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Summary
• Traditional&supply&chain&analytics&systems&mostly&include&information&that&can&be&
measured&and&collected&by&the&assessor&(e.g.&the&manufacturer)&themselves.
• We&presented&an&integrated&data&integration&tool&that&allows&the&user&to&connect&internal&
supply&chain&data&with&external&data&sources,&such&as&official&statistical&data&sets.
• UserDdefined&performance&metrics&may&utilize&this&additional&information&provided&by&
external&data&sets&and&enable&a&more&comprehensive&view&of&the&supply&chain.
• A&reporting&component&allows&the&user&to&drillDdown&into&supplier&scores&and&visualize&
scores&by&various&dimensions.&Results&can&also&be&exported&for&use&in&external&BIDtools.
• Corporate&Memory&approach&outlines&our&future&development&to&build&a&semantic&layer&
linked&to&a&big&data&infrastructure&(data&lake)&to&help&tackling&datasets&management&and&
data&transparency&needs.
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Demo
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Questions
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Hans(Chr.%Brockmann
Geschäftsführer
Neumarkt&20
DD04107&Leipzig
+49.511.336528D10
+49.511.336528D9810
+49.173.36986&D 10
brockmann@brox.de
www.eccenca.com
eccencaCommand your Data!
Contact
René Pietzsch
Tel: +49 172 6940915
email: rene.pietzsch@eccenca.com
eccenca GmbH
subsidiary of brox IT-Solutions GmbH
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