The document discusses the latest IT applications in managing supply chains, highlighting the importance of digital transformation in supply chain strategies. Key areas covered include software management, infrastructure innovations like IoT and robotics, and advanced data collection and analytics methods. The conclusion emphasizes the need for proper data integration and quality to enhance the efficiency and scalability of digital supply networks.

1. Latest IT application in
managing supply chains
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Presented by : Group 2, Sec – S3
Sweta Das – UM15181
Tuhina Mishra- UM15183
Alok Nanda – UM15188
Atish Dash – UM15196

2. 2agenda
• Introduction
• IT Trends in Software
• IT Trends in Infrastructure
• IT Trends in Data collection and Integration
• Conclusion

3. 3Introduction
• With Business changing at a faster pace, supply chain strategy needs to be re-invented.
• Digitally enhanced supply chain helps in
• Reinventing supply chain strategy
• Supply chain functions as a digital supply network (DSN) that unites physical flows, talent,
information and finance
• The IT applications in managing supply chains can be divided into three aspects: Software,
Infrastructure, Data Collection and Analytics.
Supply chain management software (SCMS) modules are used in executing supply chain
transactions, managing supplier relationships and controlling associated business processes.
Based on functionality :-
1.Customer requirement processing
2.Purchase order processing
3.Inventory management
4.Goods receipt and Warehouse management
5.Supplier Management/Sourcing

4. 4Softwares
ERP TMS WCS
• Modules for
project
management,
billing,
accounting,
inventory
management,
manufacturing,
purchasing.
• Track micro
and macro
environment.
• ERP
dashboards
• Helps
companies
move freight
from origin to
destination
efficiently,
reliably, and
cost effectively.
• Reduces freight
spend
• Better
performance
with reporting
and analytics
• Directs
equipment
controllers to
achieve the
desired result.
• Maintains
activity flow
within
warehouse
• For automated
material-
handling
hardware
(WCS)
integrates
(WMS)
YMS
• Real time
information on
location of
trailers in yard
• It is conjugation
of WMS and
TMS.
• Supply Chain
Visibility and BI
VMI
• Creates orders
for based on
demand
information
• Delivery based
on data
obtained
from Electronic
Data
Interchange (ED
I).
• IoT and
Consignment
Inventory

5. Infrastructure 5
• Fleet Management through route visibility and
tracking technology with pinpoint precision and
provide real-time, in-transit data about the product’s
condition and location
• One to many technology as multiple people can track
it without having to necessarily integrate to one
another
GPS
• Used to tag Pallets, trailers, totes, carts, cargo containers.
Readers placed throughout a facility can monitor
movement and location of inventory, thus providing real
time data
• Two types of tags- Active and Passive
• Helps in asset tracking, inventory and product
management and provide solutions for anti-counterfeiting
RFID

6. Infrastructure 6
• Cloud offerings span across
Planning and Forecasting
Logistics & Transportation
Sourcing & Procurement
Service Management
• More scalable and dynamic solving problems of continuous
shortening of product and service lifecycle and increasing
competitive threats more efficiently than infrastructure
intensive supply chains
• 12Return - A cloud-based solution that streamlines the
authorization, transportation, processing and settlement of
product returns
Cloud Dash Button
Consumer goods ordering service which uses a proprietary
device for ordering goods over the Internet.
Consists of multiple components:
Scanning device
Dash Button
Dash Replenishment Service
It may be used for other purposes such as ordering pizza,
tracking time, and controlling lights and outlets in
households configured to respond to such commands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHMXXOB6qPA
Maersk Line recently adopted a cloud-based system using decades-old
Satellite AIS data to engage real-time with their vessels

7. 7Robotics
• The movement of products from one area of a
warehouse to another is laborious and requires little
skill.
• Hence companies have automated many of their
warehouse systems to reduce human labour costs and
headcount, whilst improving efficiency and reducing
mistakes. Ex – Amazon Kiva Robots
Autonomous vehicles
• Self-driving vehicles and drones use a
variety of technologies including cameras
and advanced driver assistance systems.
• Advantages include: Lower costs,
improved safety and reduced stress.

8. 8Wearables
• The big advance in logistics tech could be augmented
reality: Wearable digital systems that promise to
reinvent the costly and cumbersome picking process
in warehouses.
• Augmented reality systems currently being offered by
companies such as Knapp, SAP and Ubimax consist of
a smart-glasses display, a camera, a wearable PC and a
battery pack in tech called “Vision Picking.”
3d printing
• 3D printing allows individualized products, which can be
designed, produced, delivered, and serviced, eliminating the
need for assembly lines responding in real-time to customer
demands.
• It allows for decreased reliability on suppliers for complex goods,
and in some cases may lead to reduced inventory costs as low-
volume goods may be printed rather than stored.

9. 9Data - Collection
General Motors now
requires its suppliers to
label shipments with
GM 1724-standard
labels, which include
two-dimensional (2-D)
bar codes, instead of
with AIAG-standard B10
labels.
Near field
communication (NFC) is
a close range RFID
technology, meant for
near to or physical touch
applications to maintain
security. It uses
electromagnetic radio
fields instead of radio
transmissions
• Picking Optimization
• Facility Planning
• Freight/Container
Loading
• Dynamic Traffic
Support
DHL in process of
implementation.
IDC anticipates that IoT
technologies will be
materially affecting the
way that all companies
manage their supply
chains by 2020 — with
estimations that the IoT
market will reach $1.7
trillion.
Amazon (DashButton)
2D Barcode- NFC- Augmented Reality- IoTs-

10. 10
SCM Data Volume and Velocity vs. Variety
Data - integration

11. 11
Kamada-Kawai Network of the identified Big Data sources across SCM
Data - Analysis

12. 12conclusion
• Finally, three other key issues must be addressed in the quest to reach total adoption of
information sharing:
• Big Data and Key Insights
• Data Quality
• The breadth of anticipated supply chain network.
• Proper integration and analysis of data across different stages of supply chain will lead to a
better digital supply network.
• This will help in digital supply chain network becoming more Connected, Intelligent,
Scalable and Rapid.

13. References: 13
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14. Thank you !
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