VI. Supply Chain Monitoring and Measurement
If all partners believe that they will get and pay their efforts, the final value of the supply chain integration can be obtained. Moreover, they are likely to have no sense of their participation, whether they are unfavorable competitive compared to other members or traditional competitors. The more complex supply chain, the more dispersed, the more difficult all parties need. In order to ensure that members on each node of the supply chain are trust each other, and maintaining optimum performance, monitoring and metrics become an important factor in successful success.
Trust-based new industry
Monitoring Supply Chain Performance is a new field full of temptation. Terminology such as supply chain event management, supply chain process management, or supply chain is used alternately. Supply Chain Monitoring must start with a close track of various processes within the supply chain. The emergence of a large number of new technologies provides upgrade information, which is primarily related to how products and information flow in different parts of the supply chain. The following describes some of this:
manufacture
In the manufacturing process, DatasWeep creates a mature system tracking manufacturing data, such as productivity, production, work, machine status in the process, and more. These information can then be transmitted to the appropriate participants over the Internet, which provides the basis for manufacturing process monitoring.
Transport / logistics
SAVI TECHNOLOGIES is a typical case in the company using RFID (RFI) technology to track a single product, like a hand or pallet container, and transportation tools. The information is uploaded to a normal Internet platform so that the visual scenario of the cargo ends can be obtained. Smartseal, provided by the company, can monitor product safety, prevent damage or theft. Once the security of the product is guaranteed, then the clearance has become quite simple.
E-center as a monitoring system
Strict monitoring enables companies to inspect problems early, so they can take the right actions immediately. The concept of E-Center, early description is the commitment of Cisco and other companies, or may be considered a supply chain monitoring system. Many other new companies, such as Worldchain, SourceRee, Vigiance, and existing players such as Exe, Vastera, Descartes are using the Internet platform to provide monitoring services.
Purchasing and contract fulfillment
Monitor often requires tracking of supplier performance and contract fulfillment. The food service market transaction provides these services for customers. For example, food operators such as Marriott may sign a contract with a food supplier, based on Marriort Hotel and the number of purchases of the goods to buy a price guarantee terms. In order to ensure the best price and unified quality, Marriott headquarters is very concerned about monitoring individual hostels and operators to comply with contracts. Instill is now providing purchase tracking services for multi-unit food service operators, and allows food management executives to make real-time monitoring.
For manufacturers, they must obtain a need for a total and tracking data, which usually shows how their products are passed through each distribution channel. Provato and Dicarta are an Internet software solutions that help companies' management and monitoring contracts.
Cross supply chain monitoring
Supply chain integration also requires performance, and supply chain performance is independent of the company's own performance metric. When the business share needs information, cooperates on the planning decision to integrate the decision-making right to supply chain, the performance is not local metrics, but different supply chain performance is shared for all participants. This is important. The Internet can be used again throughout the supply chain to promote performance. For example, the past Seecommerce is very mechanical in helping DainlerchrySler, but now it now improves its service performance. Seecommer's Internet Software Products - Exechain Package, implemented by Mopar Parts Group to monitor the performance of the service link. Investment is recovered within 12 weeks.
The next wave: Market intelligence and demand management When the tools and technologies of management supplies are gradually mature, companies are increasingly widely use of these tools and technologies, and companies will turn to demand management as a way to optimize resources and performance.
E-commerce practices can provide a set of demand data with huge potential value. Data mining, data markets and other database analysis technologies provide companies with the ability to obtain business intelligence from endogenous resources. Consumption data from multi-resource centers can provide market information for manufacturers and suppliers to help them plan sales decisions, promotional plans and new product development decisions.
Many distributors and dealers in the food service industry use Instill's Internet service portfolio, which helps companies get business intelligence. Enterprises consolidate the data of the industry, providing business intelligence information, using it as a service that provides consumers, increasing yields and market positioning.
Another case for creating business value using demand data is Demandtec. Using a wide range of data, the company can analyze customer demand characteristics based on mature statistical analysis and optimization techniques, helping companies optimize demand management decisions, such as products, pricing, promotional plans, and classifications. The optimization state is based on nonlinear project technology, which seizes the interaction between products, stores, marketing decisions, and timing arrangements, and also seizes the supply chain cost of demand management. The main reason for making such a strong and powerful solution is because the company has a lot of demand data.
This is a new field of competitive battlefield. MANUGISTICs, merge TALUS, also position themselves in the main providers of the so-called corporate profit optimization solution, link supply chain management software and prices, and income management software.
The joint data of the integrated data running through the supply chain opens a door at the lower stage of the supply chain. When many people see the needs as their unpredictable variables they prepare their plan, there are many opportunities to bring demand to the supply chain. With real-time productivity and resource data, companies can create projects such as discounts, buckles, places or small birth marketing for demand, to increase or reduce demand.
Conclusion
E-commerce has become a powerful and mandatory factor in the integration of a large number of industrial supply chain. Due to the use of e-commerce, many core supply chain concepts and rules have been applied in practice with many more efficient methods. These concepts include: information sharing, multi-party cooperation, supply chain management design, large-scale customized delay, outsourcing, and cooperation, extension or joint performance. Internet allows companies to propose highly innovative solutions that accelerate the wide adoption of core supply chain rules.
Table 2 summarizes the impact of e-commerce on supply chain integration. In the next few years, when various companies develop an e-commerce example for future development, we will see the wide application of Internet B2B applications. Many companies have found a variety of opportunities in e-commerce activities. This advancement accelerates the movement of the supply chain integration. This integration effort will have a huge difference with the traditional supply chain integration efforts. Companies that use e-commerce redefine supply chain integration will greatly improve efficiency and get stronger competitive advantages than their competitors.
Table 2: Effects of e-commerce on supply chain integration and business processes
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