This document discusses how technology is transforming supply chain management. It notes that the right information needs to get into the right hands at the right time by processing data from various sources like suppliers, inventory, and demand signals. It also outlines some key technology trends like mobile workforce, cloud computing, and multi-channel operations. Specific technologies that could help include streaming analytics, data visualization dashboards, cloud infrastructure, and UI frameworks. Potential supply chain problems are also listed that these technologies may help address, such as collaborative planning, logistics tracking, and inventory optimization.

1. SCM and Technology

2. Information
• Data -> Information
– Right Information in the Right Hands at the Right
time
• Sources of data
– Suppliers, contracts, inventory,
– Demand Signals from Social feeds, market/causal
factors,
• Information Processing
• Consumers of Information and Analysis

3. Traditional Supply Chain
• Retail, Customers – Online/Home, Store
– Realtime S&OP
– Demand/Fulfillment – POS vs ZMOT
• Supply, Manufacturing
– Strategy, Sourcing, Procurement
• Logistics, Warehousing
– Fleet Management (UPS Orion)
– Real-time execution and eventing

4. Top technology trends
• Mobile Workforce, Customers
• Cloud – Anytime Anywhere, Elastic
• Multi-Channel – Customers, ZMOT
• Analytics/Prediction
– BigData, Realtime Data Processing
– User Profiling, Intent

5. Technologies to consider
• Streaming (Realtime and Batch)
– Problem Solving, Execution, Retail/Pricing
solutions
• Analytics and Dashboarding
– BigData, DataStore, Processors
• CI/CD, VM – Productivity, Speed,
Environments
• Cloud – Scale, Security
• UI Frameworks – Deployment, Dashboarding

6. Notes
• Potential SCM Problems
– Collate demand for each SKU, Geo, Store, Date,
signal_source dimensions
– Realtime event (EDI, Internet) to track logistics
and asset tracking, Fleet Management
– Adaptive and Collaborative Realtime planning
using SaaS APIs (incl third-party services)
– Inventory, Warehousing and dock-door planning