UNIT 5 Concept of Information Technology: IT
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Description: UNIT 5 Concept of Information Technology IT Application in SCM Advanced Planning and Scheduling SCM in Electronic Business Role of Knowledge in SCM Performance Measurement and Controls in Agri Supply Chain Management Benchmarking
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UNIT 5 Concept of Information Technology: IT Application in SCM; Advanced Planning and Scheduling; SCM in Electronic Business; Role of Knowledge in SCM; Performance Measurement and Controls in Agri. Supply Chain Management- Benchmarking: introduction, concept and forms of Benchmarking. (a) Green Supply Chains. (b) Global Supply Chains. (c) Coordination in a SC. Value of and distortion of information: Bullwhip effect (d) Sourcing and contracts in SC (e) Product availability with uncertain demand. (f) Inventory planning with known /unknown demand. (g) Cases from FAO/IFPRI etc. (Reference is given from N. Chandrasekharan) Role of IT Internal and external changes For e.g.– customer order fulfillment and progressive status Systematized and synchronized with traceability Concept of IT IT can be referred to as the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. It is the combination of telecommunications and computing to obtain, process, store, transmit and output information in the form of voice, pictures, words and numbers Variety of disciplines including telecommunications, I S, Software development, multimedia publishing, DBMS, graphical and visual applications and computer modelling. Need for IT Data transfer Information retrieval Machine and process control Top vendors of SCM solution providers SAP Oracle Sage Group Infor Global Epicor IT tools for Business Project Management- features for scheduling, tracking, monitoring, reporting activities within multiproject environment. Computer Aided Design/ Manufacturing CIM- integrated use of computer aided techniques Manufacturing Execution system- consist of one or more modules used to track inventory and to insure and document the proper execution of manufacturing process. MIS- designed to provide management personnel with up to date information on an organisations performance/ business activities. Eg. Annual report for a stockholder Cont. DSS- automated MIS, Two categories- Enterprise wide DSS and desktop DSS ES- based on AI , requires knowledge base, a fact base and a rule base. Knowledge Management- two ways- documenting individuals KB and disseminating through manuals or database. ERP-SAP, ORACLE FINANCIALS, BAAN (Baan was a vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that is now owned by Infor Global Solutions. CRM SCM, eSCM IT applications in SCM MRP- reduce processing time, consistency, speed, accuracy MRP II- Manufacturing Resources Planning- MIS,DBMS, RDBMS (is a database management system which is based on the relational model as invented by E. F. Codd, of IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory. ERP- Integration platform by master tables E ERP- SCM- transaction execution, collaboration and
