Genève – 24 Feb 2005
Matteo Villa
TXT e-Solutions SpA
SFIDA-PMI Soluzioni informatiche per FIliere, Distretti ed Associazioni di PMI
The Goal
• Support next generation Supply Chain
Management applications:
– components-based view of enterprise applications
– components seamless and flexible composition and
integration
– de-centralized architectures with central or hierarchical
coordination
– adoption of a new “e-business Grid Computing”
platform
• Targeting needs of SME belonging to
industrial districts and dynamic supply
networks
SFIDA-PMI Soluzioni informatiche per FIliere, Distretti ed Associazioni di PMI
The Impact on SMEs
• Current drawbacks:
– Big monolithic Enterprise solutions: high price vs few really required
functionalities
– Ad-hoc application (not inter-operable) vs expensive middlewarebased integration projects
• The solution: “Collaborate to compete” - SFIDA will
offer tools for:
– focus on “strategic competences” through “self-awareness”
mechanisms
– expose such competences in a structured way to other partners
– compose competences exposed
– manage collaborative process (measure, monitor performances
parameters)
– support business operations: processes synchronization,
knowledge sharing & exchange, cooperative work, IT systems
interoperability
SFIDA-PMI Soluzioni informatiche per FIliere, Distretti ed Associazioni di PMI
The Impact on IT Industry
• New components development paradigm:
– GRID-based Development Environment for Supply Chain
applications, directly supporting componentization, intelligence
and collaboration
– Components orchestration driven by application process logic
(including parallelism, data-streaming, critical paths...)
– Application process logic to be driven by customers business logic
– Independence from underlying technology
• New possible licensing models:
– Based on service provision (rather than products), supporting
collaborative processes for SMEs
– Service Level Agreements through a direct correlation of services
composition and QoS
SFIDA-PMI Soluzioni informatiche per FIliere, Distretti ed Associazioni di PMI
GRID-based Architecture
SFIDA-PMI Soluzioni informatiche per FIliere, Distretti ed Associazioni di PMI
Test Case: High Performances in
Retail Planning
• Current drawbacks:
– Centralised retail data gathering & processing
– Critical computational time for demand planning (8
hours vs 8 hours slot)
• Expected benefits from SFIDA:
– Collaboration of central brand owner with redistributors to distribute data / computation
– Dynamic resources allocation to improve performances
vs investments
– Better demand forecasts due to more computational
time available
SFIDA-PMI Soluzioni informatiche per FIliere, Distretti ed Associazioni di PMI
Thank you
Contacts: [email protected]
SFIDA-PMI Soluzioni informatiche per FIliere, Distretti ed Associazioni di PMI