Abstract
The fierce global competition and market turbulence has been forcing the enterprises towards to the integration and intelligence for supply chain management, and the seamless information sharing and collaboration as well as operation agility are the challenges which need to be conquered, in terms of the highly distributed and heterogeneous resources located in separated warehouses. Although a number of works have been done to achieve the aforementioned targets, few of them are able to provide an overall integration and intelligence support for such system management. In this context, a novel intelligent supply chain integration and management system based on Cloud of Things is presented, in order to provide flexible and agile approaches to facilitate the resource sharing and participant collaboration in the whole supply chain life cycle. Furthermore, the enabling technologies, such as intelligent supply chain condition perception, heterogeneous network access convergence, and resource servicisation, are also studied. Finally, a case study together with the prototype system is implemented and demonstrates that the developed system can efficiently realise the integration of supply chain processes in the form of services, and also provide the effective intelligence support for physical resource management, so as to achieve an overall performance assurance for the system operation.
Highlights
As a vital and important process of industrial production, supply chain affects the operation efficiency and beneficial value of enterprises with the cost of transportation, land, and labor
With the highly distributed and heterogeneous resources located in separated warehouses, the warehouse integration, which is an indispensable part of supply chain management, will face more challenges
We firstly introduce a Cloud of Things (CoT) model for supply chain integration and management,and the architecture of the developed system is described in detail
Summary
As a vital and important process of industrial production, supply chain affects the operation efficiency and beneficial value of enterprises with the cost of transportation, land, and labor. With the highly distributed and heterogeneous resources located in separated warehouses, the warehouse integration, which is an indispensable part of supply chain management, will face more challenges In this context, supply chain integration has higher requirements for real-time information sharing, response speed, and flexibility in agile management. In order to facilitate the modern supply chain integration and conquer the aforementioned challenges, such as lacking of real-time information and agility, this paper presents an intelligent supply chain integration and management system based on the conception of CoT. The primary goal of the previous one is to supply demands at the lowest level cost [16], while the other one’s aim is to respond quickly to various demands [17] In this system, more attention is paid to supply chain integration, real-time monitoring requirements, and cloud service for agility, to meet various demands at lowest cost in agile way.
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