MRD and Supply Chain Brett Schaeffer Todd Falsone

MRD and Supply Chain Brett Schaeffer Todd Falsone James Schrumpf Adam Dawson

Supply Chain Integration � The processes that run on top of application integration level �Dependant on the success of application integration �Heavily centered on strategy

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Entities �Suppliers – The organizations that supply goods or services as a part of a supply chain. �Consumers- Organizations that use the goods or services to meet a business need. �Supplier and Consumer Systems- Systems that use and produce information to carry out defined roles of the supplier and consumer.

�Supply Chains support the flow of goods and services from their starting point to their destination �Supply Chain Integration helps a business coordinate its manufacturing to assist in the flow of these goods and services �It helps it create a standardized distribution system �Using Messaging Brokers, supply chain integrators can bind systems, even proprietary systems belonging to a business partner, with their own enterprise system

XML �Provides an information-exchange standard �Robust and human-readable �Creates and application-level mechanism for producing business information that other applications can use �They do not need to understand anything about the transmitting applications

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) �The transfer of structured data, by agreed message standards, from one computer system to another without human intervetion. �Structured Transmission of data between organizations by electronic means. �Standards tend to focus on ASCII formatted single messages �Not the whole sequence of conditions and exchanges that make up an inter-organizations business process.

Rosetta. Net �A trading community standard �Was created to define standard processes and interfaces to manage supply chains within the hightechnology industry �Goals �Reduce the cycle time �Reduce the inventory cost �Improve productivity �Measurable Supply Chain Return on Investment

�Rosetta. Net provides a master dictionary to define properties for products, partners, and business transactions. �The most important aspect of Rosetta. Net is the development of common Partner Interface Processes (PIPs) and common dictionaries. �Rosetta. Net is less about technology and all about creating POPs, which are really contracts or agreements