Supply Chain Standards

Paper Summary:

The paper states that the integration points between supplier and buyer are so complex and numerous, that many industries need supply chain standards to ensure their competitiveness. The paper further comments that these supply chain standards look to set the foundation for ensuring efficient and accurate transfer of content between buyers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners throughout a supplier network. The paper also states that, given the myriad of supply chain interactions in these networks, and taking into account the slight variations each supplier has in their approach to delivering content to buyers, a consistent standard for communicating both content and completing transactions is necessary.

From the Paper:

"While Askegar and Columbus discuss the role of PIPs with market makers in the high tech manufacturing and distribution marketplace (1, 4) Swanton (2) discusses the potential impact of RosettaNet adoption on manufacturing centers in low-wage countries and points to the efficiencies possible in Chinese manufacturing centers. Swanton sees the enablement of Chinese manufacturing via PIPs in RosettaNet as the tipping point in their ability to capitalize on their cost advantages and compete on time-to-market and supply chain synchronization, much like their western counterparts. Further, Swanton sees the emerges of the RosettaNet Automatic Enablement (RAE) program with its uses of PDFs that document process flows, as critical in the development of a pervasive RosettaNet network of manufacturing suppliers in China. Chinese distribution channels throughout high tech specifically have already worked to include content management and content automation as part of their initial RosettaNet on boarding strategies, as many of these companies are using highly manual approaches to managing their content today. As RosettaNet is now under the umbrella of the GS1 US standards organization, which is formerly known of as the Uniform Code Council (UCC), the standards body is working to drop the cost of on boarding in China to literally less than $1,000 for any manufacturer or distributor interested in participating. If they are successful the resulting inventory visibility and resulting order management velocities will be very significant and result in higher profitability for the entire high tech industry globally."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Askegar and Columbus - High-Tech Supply Chains need best Practices To Ground RosettaNet. Vinay Askegar, Louis Columbus. AMR Research. Tuesday, January 1, 2002. Pgs. 1 - 4.
• Swanton. Low-Cost Countries and Onboarding Bring RosettaNet to the Tipping (PIPing?) Point. Bill Swanton. AMR Research. June 21, 2005

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