SCM will give way to XML?
Although the supply-chain management becomes more recent topic of discussion, one of the industry, but in fact this technology has been close to a winter that is still all alone hanging on the branches of the air-dry the berries, although it can become a temporary landscape, but on the verge of demise of the edge.
Technologies, represented by a number of supply chain management product suppliers in the market achieved a sense of success, Oracle, SAP, etc. ERP suppliers have also been attracted to the SCM market, which are causing the industry supply chain management, an important reason why a lot of talk, fundamentally change supply chain management technology is rapidly litter as a something of the past trends. Today, the production efficiency has long been raised to a level sufficient to astonishing proportions, just in the last five years, the community would increase overall production efficiency by 25 percent, while prices have dropped to nearly 10 years ago the level of . This indicates that the current productivity of most companies have already brought to the extreme, in other words, i2 Technologies like the company's supply chain management products are actually already completed its bounden mission.
In each area of technology, the emergence of any kind of technology are the first to experience change and innovation is the resulting marks the market entry phase of maturity and saturation standardized platform, the current supply-chain management techniques employed has entered this stage. In fact, we can easily find each one claiming to be a platform provider companies are trying to developments in the field that have been mature re-interpretation of orientation and goals, thus on this basis, building up the more profitable part of the application. German software maker SAP released its APO and R3 advanced supply chain planning applications for the purpose of optimization module is based on this point. This also shows that the technology market has already reached the stage of platform based building applications, which is a kind of technology will be the most obvious sign of demise. Supply chain management products will also be subject to the new emerging XML technology challenges.
Today's XML technology has been fully used to reduce supply-chain management costs and create a standardized process, and this technology do not like the current supply chain management product that needs too much attention to collaboration. As a Web development best suited to standard technology, XML support for structured data, you can define in detail the object data structure. In addition, the structured data allows the exchange of data in different formats to adapt to different companies and even among different industry data and information exchange needs, to provide product than the existing supply chain management more flexibility and better collaboration performance. Another big advantage of XML is to significantly reduce the cost of data management and exchange, XML has a complete set of uniform data formats, such a unified data format can not only reduce the cost of data management and exchange, but also easy to manage. It can be said, XML data for the Web brings structure, intelligence and interoperability, will bring Web query technology, Web database technology as well as Web data exchange technology overhaul, be able to more cost-effective and flexible implementation of B2C and B2B e-commerce data exchange model.
XML technology has no doubt that these outstanding features make the current supply chain management products dwarfs, thus quickly industry wide recognition and application, as the World Wide Web Consortium XML advocate of XML team also acceptable to the industry and expansion of the speed of XML functionality fast unexpected. Thus, XML technology development and application will make today's supply chain management products with the wind, even though some of the new companies are attempting to rekindle interest in the industry in this area and introduced a certain performance improved products, but due to the the development of the current market situation and supply chain management technology has its limitations, which the company's efforts have yielded little success, but also in supply chain management will soon come to an end towards the general trend of no help.
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