Supply Chains are No Longer Linear
Jean V. Murphy writes in SupplyChainBrain.com
Within the enterprise, supply chain projects are good candidates for SOA. "The supply chain lends itself to this kind of model because it is no longer a linear process," says Romit Dey, who heads industry solutions consulting for the high-tech and discrete manufacturing industries at Infosys, a software company based in Bangalore, India. "As a result of globalization, the supply chain is now a complex grid, which cannot be managed by monolithic applications operating in self-contained footprints and talking to each other in very structured ways," he says. "Another reason is the demand for collaboration between companies", adds Dey, "and a third is the imperative for agile operations. Speed and agility in areas like time to market and demand response are possible only if IT is up to the task," he says.
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