Big Data Supply Chain

1. Big Data and its
Applications in
Supply Chain
Management
Zibin Guan,
Venkata Malapati,
Darpan Shah,
Maggie Zhang

2. Reasons for SCM Domain
At the beginning:
 You may not like Supply Chain at all.
 You may have terabytes Data but with
no Science and even no Sense at all.
 So, there are some opportunities of using
Data Science and Big Data to improve Supply
Chain just like how they improve people’s
lives.

3. Big Data Changes the World

4. Real Issue In SCM
 Retailers 'Stress from Amazon
 Fears of going out of business (Toys’ R Us and Sears)
 Fight with Amazon.
 Achiever: Global giant retailer – Walmart
President and CEO Doug McMillon said:
“Our Omni-channel initiatives are contributing to comp sales
growth and providing customers with new levels of shopping
convenience, to help deliver a more compelling store
experience, we continue to bring digital capabilities to our stores
to deliver a seamless experience for customers, however they
choose to shop.”

5. Walmart’s Big Data in SCM
 Walmart Grocery
 Promise of the same low prices
 Pick up at any preferred store
 Special parking space with Orange sign
 Promotion codes

6. Walmart’s Big Data Storage

7. What Retailers want
 How much cost Big Data can enable the
business to save when inventories flow from
all over the world to consumers’ hands
 How the inventory flow channel can be
optimized for the business to have cost
advantages.

8. Big Data 4 Vs in SCM

9. Volume & Velocity
 608 million packages (18.5
pps)
 51 billion in shipments (162
sps)
 9.49 billion items (306 ips)
 180 million items, $7.9 billions
sales (Thanksgiving, 417 ips,
$8 msps)
 Data Network (customer,
manufactory, carriers, e-
business)
 Location

10. Variety & Veracity
 Carriers, location,
customers, etc.
 Analyzing
 Ranking
 Ranking System
 Information
Asymmetry
 Outlier detection

11. Cost Saving in SCM Pipeline

12. Existing Solution
 EDI
 UPS’ ORION
 1) Data Transfer - Velocity
2) Data Security - Veracity
3) Data Integration – Variety
4) Data Storage - Volume

13. Our Ideas

14. Solutions
 Use Micro Servers and Micro Services
concepts to solve data storage issues.
 Use necessary skills to ensure Cloud Security.
 Implement GPS calculating Algorithm to
calculate the cost and provide the APIs in
order to deploy the application to different
corporations.
 Big Data Visualization of SC Pipeline
Interfaces

15. Thank you!
Total Costs at a specific location
Inbound Cost
Outbound Cost