Business Grid and Intelligent Supply chains

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Business Gridand Intelligent Supply chains

• e-Business Group
• Management School

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Background - AiMeS

• Advanced Internet Methods and Emergent Systems

- Largest UK funded research group in e-business
- IMRC in e-Business valued at 3M over 5 years
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Business Grid Opportunities
Resource OptimisationBusiness Community
PortalsIntelligent Supply Chains
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Business Grid Opportunities
1. Resource Optimisation Logistics
Optimisation Care Worker Optimisation
Manufacturing Optimisation
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Business Grid Opportunities
Logistics Optimisation
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Business Grid Opportunities
Care Resource Optimisation
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Business Grid Opportunities
Manufacturing Optimisation
Price?
MAKE TO STOCK
Inventory
Yield?
Time-to-market?
Price?
Vaccine
Delivery Date
How much can we make / sell?
Time
What to make?
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Business Grid Opportunities

• 2. Supply Chain Portals
• Recursive Aerospace Supply Communities
• Cluster Portals (Construction, Maritime,
  Food)
• SME Work-package Portal

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Business Grid Opportunities

• New business models with product transparency
• And data grid.
• Intelligent Supply Chains
• Wireless product identification by RFID
• with Grid-enabled business applications
• In
• Responsive food supply chains
• Personalisation in manufacturing

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Value optimisation with RFID and data grid

• Product value tracking
• Dynamic pricing
• Customised products

(Adapted from Schwartz, 1997)

• Buy Freshness,
• Priced by real time value

(United Devices, 2004)
(Manhattan Associates, 2002)
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Value optimisation with RFID and data grid
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Data Grid
Max Value
Food supply chain
Stores
Grower

• Minimised lost of values
• Price transparency
• Maximised value to consumers

Depots
Factories
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Value optimisation with RFID and data grid
Minimising loss of values in supply chains by
dynamically allocating products
Objective Min Costs Loss of product values in
processing Costs in transit Penalty
Subject to Traceable deteriorate values
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Tf-m, kg) Vm-d, kg Vm, kg . EXP(-am,k.
Tm,k ) Vd,jk, kg Vm-d, kg . EXP(-a m-d,
jk. Tm-d, jk) Vd-r, jk, kg Vd,jk, kg .
EXP(-ad,j. Td,j) Vr, ij, jk, kg Vd-r,
jk, kg . EXP(-ad-r,ij . Td-r,ij) Dor,i gt
MinDor, i Si ODr,i Si Dor,i i, j, k, g
nodes of the supply chain
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j
k
g
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A Case of RFID-enabled dynamic planning
Re-allocated product flows to maximize
values to supply chain and consumers
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RFID-enabled personalisation/mass customisation
in manufacturing

• Value-adding service through Grid offers agile
  engineering solutions in distributed product
  design and manufacturing processes.
• Service platforms through Grid enable customers
  individualize products by combing optimized
  resources (prototyped design, specified
  manufacturing processes with satisfactory quality
  and costs) into virtual enterprises.
• RFID technology visualizes the individualized
  products in transformation processes . It
  enables dynamical control of distributed
  manufacturing processes to be both efficient and
  agile by Grid-enabled on-line analysis process
  (OLAP) and
• PN-enabled process control.
• .

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RFID-enabled Mass customisation

• Extending process visualization to customized
  product visualization.
• Synchronizing distributed manufacturing with EPC
  Data Grid.
• Dynamically customizing products and scheduling
  processes with Grid-enabled services.

Different parts ? Changed tolerance ?
Earlier delivery ? Different feature ?
(Cheng and Popov, 2004)
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RFID-enabled personalisation/mass customisation
in manufacturing

• Interacting with customers by Grid-enabled
  coordination protocol.
• Enhancing cooperation with abstracted business
  modeling and transparent decision making.

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Automated Workflow system
Visualize Evaluate, Argument
Coordination Grid for Mass customisation
Local optimization service
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Summary Intelligent and Responsive Supply Chain

• Product transparency stimulate new business
  models to revolutionise customer services.
• Wireless product identification with Grid
  services enables supply chain optimisation at the
  product level.
• Customisation in manufacturing with RFID and Grid
  technologies can be enhanced towards automated
  control and visualised processes.

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Summary Business Grid

• Resource sharing coordinated problem solving in
  dynamic, multi-institutional virtual
  organizations
• On-demand, ubiquitous access to computing, data,
  and services
• New capabilities constructed dynamically and
  transparently from distributed services
• Evolved to be dominant e-Science, now
  transitioning to industry (think Web in 1994)