Role of Information Technology in supply chain managemnent Presented by:-

Mohit patodiya Abhinav ojha

What is supply chain …?

•A supply chain consist of all parties involved directly or indirectly fulfilling a customer request

What is IT….

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY is the study , design , implementation and management of computer based information system

Role of IT in a Supply Chain

Makes supply chain visible to a manager

Support in decision making to improve supply chain performance

Real time information

Wide collaboration with supply chain partners

Functional Roles of IT in SCM

Functional Roles Of IT

Decision SupportTransaction Execution

Collaboration & Coordination

Information Technology for Supply Chain Management

Software SystemsEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Supply Chain Management Systems (SCM)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

EDI is the computer-to-computer exchange of business data in standard formats.

In EDI, information is organized according to a specified format set by both parties, allowing a ³hands-off´computer transaction that requires no human intervention at either end.

EDI standards are developed &managed by the

Accredited Standards Committee(ASC) X12. The standards are designed to work across industry& co.boundaries

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

SAP

The Use & Benefits of IT

1) Improved efficiency allows company personnel's to focus more on the critical business activities.

2) E-business solutions support planning collaboration & improved agility of the supply network.

3) The use of E-business solutions improve the information quality.

4) To gain strategic benefits, the use of IT has to be coupled with process re-design

Example….. Reliance trends

(H.O.) Bangalore Bangladesh (Manuf.)

Bangalore

East zone | south zone | west zone | north zone

Rajasthan

Bhilwara

Software which they use is SAP

Another e.g. :Vishal mega mart, dominoz, shopperstop etc.

Limitation…..

Privacy

Dependency on system

Difference b/w theoretical & practical

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