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This document discusses how information systems impact supply chain management across planning, sourcing, and delivery processes. It provides a literature analysis of over 1,500 articles on the intersection of supply chains and information systems to classify research topics, methods, and identify major trends. The findings point to a lack of research on the impact of new technologies on supply chains and issues around data privacy, governance, and security in supply chains. The analysis provides insights for researchers and practitioners on the current state of research in this area and future trends.

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This document discusses how information systems impact supply chain management across planning, sourcing, and delivery processes. It provides a literature analysis of over 1,500 articles on the intersection of supply chains and information systems to classify research topics, methods, and identify major trends. The findings point to a lack of research on the impact of new technologies on supply chains and issues around data privacy, governance, and security in supply chains. The analysis provides insights for researchers and practitioners on the current state of research in this area and future trends.

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Assess the potential of information systems to support supply chain

management and the value chain

Information systems (IS) impact supply chain management (SCM) on processes


such as planning, sourcing, and delivering, and at levels ranging from tactical
operations to organisational strategy. The vast scope of IS and SCM
relationships have resulted in diverse and disintegrated research on the topic.
This paper offers a systematic literature analysis at the intersection of supply
chain and information systems (SCIS), aiming to provide a classification for
existing areas of research. This research is based on an analysis of more than
1500 articles published in peer-reviewed journals over the past four decades to
classify topics and methods and to identify major trends and distinguish
important research themes. In general, the findings point out that there is a
dearth of research on topics such as ‘impact of IT on vertical disintegration of
supply chains,’ ‘implications of new technologies for supply chains,’ and
‘concerns related to trust, governance, ownership, privacy, and security of data
in supply chains.’ This work provides both researchers and practitioners with an
insightful description of the current state of research in SCIS and related future
trends in research and practice.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management


of a network of interconnected businesses involved in
the ultimate provision of product and service packages
required by end customers (Harland, 1996). The sharing
of information among supply chain networks allows the
supply chain drivers to work together with the goal of
integrated and coordinated supply chains for effective
supply chain management. Information also enhances
the performance and reduces the risks of supply chains
because it provides processes executed transactions and
it creates opportunity for decision makers when they
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management
of a network of interconnected businesses involved in
the ultimate provision of product and service packages
required by end customers (Harland, 1996). The sharing
of information among supply chain networks allows the
supply chain drivers to work together with the goal of
integrated and coordinated supply chains for effective
supply chain management. Information also enhances
the performance and reduces the risks of supply chains
because it provides processes executed transactions and
it creates opportunity for decision makers when they
When we talk about information access for the supply chain, retailers have an
essential designation. They emerge to the position of prominence with the help
of technologies. The advancement of inter organizational information system
for the supply chain has three distinct benefits. These are −
 Cost reduction − The advancement of technology has further led to
ready availability of all the products with different offers and discounts.
This leads to reduction of costs of products.
 Productivity − The growth of information technology has improved
productivity because of inventions of new tools and software. That
makes productivity much easier and less time consuming.
 Improvement and product/market strategies − Recent years have seen
a huge growth in not only the technologies but the market itself. New
strategies are made to allure customers and new ideas are being
experimented for improving the product.
It would be appropriate to say that information technology is a vital organ of
supply chain management. With the advancement of technologies, new
products are being introduced within fraction of seconds increasing their
demand in the market. Let us study the role of information technology in
supply chain management briefly.
The software as well as the hardware part needs to be considered in the
advancement and maintenance of supply chain information systems. The
hardware part comprises computer's input/output devices like the screen,
printer, mouse and storage media. The software part comprises the entire
system and application program used for processing transactions management
control, decision-making and strategic planning.
Here we will be discussing the role of some critical hardware and software
devices in SCM. These are briefed below −

Electronic Commerce

Electronic commerce involves the broad range of tools and techniques used to
conduct business in a paperless environment. Hence it comprises electronic
data interchange, e-mail, electronic fund transfers, electronic publishing, image
processing, electronic bulletin boards, shared databases and magnetic/optical
data capture.
Electronic commerce helps enterprises to automate the process of transferring
records, documents, data and information electronically between suppliers and
customers, thus making the communication process a lot easier, cheaper and
less time consuming.

Electronic Data Interchange

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) involves the swapping of business


documents in a standard format from computer-to-computer. It presents the
capability as well as the practice of exchanging information between two
companies electronically rather than the traditional form of mail, courier, &
fax.
The major advantages of EDI are as follows −

 Instant processing of information


 Improvised customer service
 Limited paper work
 High productivity
 Advanced tracing and expediting
 Cost efficiency
 Competitive benefit
 Advanced billing
The application of EDI supply chain partners can overcome the deformity and
falsehood in supply and demand information by remodeling technologies to
support real time sharing of actual demand and supply information.

Barcode Scanning

We can see the application of barcode scanners in the checkout counters of


super market. This code states the name of product along with its manufacturer.
Some other practical applications of barcode scanners are tracking the moving
items like elements in PC assembly operations and automobiles in assembly
plants.

Data Warehouse

Data warehouse can be defined as a store comprising all the databases. It is a


centralized database that is prolonged independently from the production
system database of a company.
Many companies maintain multiple databases. Instead of some particular
business processes, it is established around informational subjects. The data
present in data warehouses is time dependent and easily accessible. Historical
data may also be accumulated in data warehouse.
Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP) Tools

The ERP system has now become the base of many IT infrastructures. Some of
the ERP tools are Baan, SAP, PeopleSoft. ERP system has now become the
processing tool of many companies. They grab the data and minimize the
manual activities and tasks related to processing financial, inventory and
customer order information.
ERP system holds a high level of integration that is achieved through the
proper application of a single data model, improving mutual understanding of
what the shared data represents and constructing a set of rules for accessing
data.
With the advancement of technology, we can say that world is shrinking day by
day. Similarly, customers' expectations are increasing. Also companies are
being more prone to uncertain environment. In this running market, a company
can only sustain if it accepts the fact that their conventional supply chain
integration needs to be expanded beyond their peripheries.

The strategic and technological interventions in supply chain have a huge


effect in predicting the buy and sell features of a company. A company should
try to use the potential of the internet to the maximum level through clear
vision, strong planning and technical insight. This is essential for better supply
chain management and also for improved competitiveness.
We can see how Internet technology, World Wide Web, electronic commerce
etc. has changed the way in which a company does business. These companies
must acknowledge the power of technology to work together with their
business partners.
We can in fact say that IT has launched a new breed of SCM application. The
Internet and other networking links learn from the performance in the past and
observe the historical trends in order to identify how much product should be
made along with the best and cost effective methods for warehousing it or
shipping it to retailer.

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