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INDIA Intelligent Networking of
Dynamically Interrelated Actors
Prof. Dr.- Ing. H.
Kühnle
OTTO-VON-GUERICKE-UNIVERSITY Magdeburg
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Italy Italy Italy Spain Italy
Germany France Italy Spain
Partners
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INDIA Intelligent Networking of
Dynamically Interrelated Actors
Prof. Dr.- Ing. H.
Kühnle
OTTO-VON-GUERICKE-UNIVERSITY Magdeburg
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INDIA Objectives
Develop new technologies to transform
sequential value chains with few actors into
dynamic organisations involving constellations
of enterprises (SME)
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Obstacles
On the other hand
SME will not easily co-operate SME fear long
term dependency No deeper look in the
systems Vulnerable for low buying
power Necessary IT implementations bring back to
mind bad exp. No exchange of existing systems
only for opportunities ............. ..........

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• Present situation
• Moderate support to relations with external
  enterprises (customers, suppliers, logistics)
• Little support to search for new partners
• Limited help to evaluate competing partner
  behaviours
• Internet as enabling technology
• To allow cheap data exchange all over the world
• To share knowledge with partners
• gtgtgtgtgtgtgtgtA great opportunity for a SME Company
• To act in the global market
  while remaining locally
  rooted
• To improve flexibility with
  respect to market demand
• To have a pioneer role in the
  market

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Network view/steps
Selection mode among partners
Mode of acquisition assigning orders mode of
order and work partition a.) Capacities/cost
b.) Qualification
Order execution Order Distribution Controlling
Network development
Analyse added value for customers Requirement
list e.g. Time, cost, quality..
Advantages and reasons for all partners
Prevention of abuse
Common Objectives
Concept
Implementation
draft
decom misssion
Identification
requirements
Detailed design
operation
Contract signed Implementation of
boards Installation of IT-Routines
Description of potential access procedures
Framework Intentions Code of behaviour
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• The Constellation Driver (CD) concept
• A medium-size company solution
• Promoting the constitution of a constellation for
  each supply sector
• To put constellation members into competition to
  each other

The approach
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• The Constellation member (CM)
• Properly selected and qualified partner
• Aware of the constellation policy and status
• Act (itself) as Constellation Driver (CD)
• Speed up and improve order management
• Take advantage of CD special offers
• Indications to drive efficient investments
• Improve exception handling

The Approach
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Constellation operation
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Systems modules
Tactical ANanalyser module. It provides an
easy-to-use control panel, where plans are
launched and compared with respect to
multicriteria logic. The Constellation
Driver uses the tool to prepare simulation
sessions, for constellation constitution and
adaptation, and to prepare planning sessions to
assign orders to the best constellation
members.
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Systems modules
Simulation and PLanning module. provides the
computation functions to generate plans on the
basis of demand and parameters set by TAN. The
same planning algorithm applies to simulation
and operation phases, to make planning logic
fully understandable to the CD
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• From the CD viewpoint
• Assign tasks to the supplier constellation
  members
• Prepare offers to customer constellation members
• Provide technical data and documents
• Manage possible exceptions
• Monitor the work progress
• From the CM viewpoint
• Manage the CD order
• Declare task progress and exceptions
• In case of customer
• Evaluate and manage the CD offer
• Visualise the info of interest at the CD site

Constellation operation
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• Criticality analysis
• Model value chain distributed processes
• Identify the needed resource profiles
• Simulate alternative process and resource
  configurations
• Constellation constitution
• Search for companies that meet the required
  profiles
• Qualify the candidate partners
• Perform the acceptance procedure and establish
  the contracts
• Constellation adaptation
• Evaluate the performances of each partner
• Study trends and drifts in the constellation
  behaviour
• Decide how to improve the constellation
  performance

Constellation configuration
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Processes and actions
One of the most important features of the
solution is the possibility to describe the
actions necessary
to buy or to produce or to deliver a product.
These actions are mapped into activities
belonging to four main categories

Purchasing



Manufacturing


Transportation

Warehousing.

We name process a group of activities linked
together.
The system permits to create very complex
processes that contain branches in alternative
or in
parallelism.
The following figure shows an example of process.
Figure
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Example of process
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Purchasing
PURC
W2
Warehousing
T3
M4
Manufacturing
M2
M3


MAN
M1
T1
T2


B1
B2


W1
P1
P2


Transportation
Simple model examples
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Constellation configuration The general modules
of the software platform
Complete set up
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Systems modules
Work Flow Manager module. This module is in
charge of managing and recording all the
communications that take place between the CD
and the constellation members during the
execution of the confirmed plans.
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• Partner Profile Searcher. This module
  supportsthe CD in defining the profile of a
  required partner, and then in searching on the
  Web the companies matching that profile. The
  search engine activates intelligent agents on
  the basis of the required partner profile.
• Constellation Manager
• Every constellation is managed in terms of its
  members,
• their features and their history within the
  constellation itself.
• CMA is in charge of recording and updating these
  data,
• which come from PPS, WFM and also the single
  constellation
• member (technical, temporal and economical
  conditions of service provisions).

Systems modules
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Systems modules
Import/Export module. A major user requirement
is that the platform should be as independent
as possible of the current legacy/ERP system.
To meet this (non-invasive constraint), data
exchange is done using a well-defined XML data
structure, using mobile agents to automate the
data extraction and transfer process.
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IT Plattforms
The technological environment is J2EE compliant,
with Java servlets to produce the dynamic
content of Web pages, and Enterprise Java Beans
(EJBs) for managing business logic and
interfacing the DBMS. Such three-tier
architecture is well supported by free Web
servers (Apache) and Application Servers
(Jboss), but is also portable to more robust
publication environment (Web Logic, Web Sphere,
Oracle), and to Windows NT.
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Constellation configuration The general modules
of the software platform
Complete set up
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COVEME
1. Company profile Coveme is a company founded in
1965 that supplies all over the world materials
for electric insulation, films for food
packaging, coated and surface-treated films
and/or laminated products commonly used in
different kinds of industrial areas. Coveme has
its headquarters in S. Lazzaro di Savena
(Bologna), while its production plant is in
Gorizia. In Bologna there are 61 employees, while
60 people work in Gorizia.
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AFADIS
2. Company profile Created in 1984, AFADIS is
based in Buc, near Versailles, in the Yvelines
district. The spacious and functional site
developed over an area of 1800 sq (600 sq. for
production, 1200 sq. for the warehousing). Team
11 persons today Equipment a high level of
investment in men power and equipments. AFADIS is
present on the following markets - Graphic
Industries mounting films, anti-Newton film,
masking film -         Films (transparent and
white opak) for visual presentations, overhead
transparencies for visual communication and
education). The product line is expanded
according to market needs (ink-jet and
laser) Technical offices large format imaging
(colour ink-jet plotters, Computer Aided Design).

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Greschalux
3.       Company profile As far back as 1961,
three years after the Grescha-Gesellschaft was
founded and "Greschalux was registered as a
trademark, the companys long-term objectives
were defined the acceptance of smoke and heat
exhaust venting systems as an efficient means of
preventive fire protection with the aim of saving
lives in the case of fire.
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  Measurable benefits of the solutionThe
benefits for a CD are quite clear as a stronger
competition is produced among the enterprises
belonging to the constellations of suppliers and
customers. A preliminary analysis carried out at
the pilots highlights the following main
quantities        Better order acceptance
rate, reduced lead-time (at least 20).       
Faster selling off of surpluses (at least
10).        Lower external relation cost (at
least 5).        Lower transportation cost (at
least 25).        Less ambiguity in order
management (about 40).        More opportunity
to access special offers (about 10).       
Less transportation to manage directly (about
30).        More efficiency in investments (up
to 60).Improved exception handling
(up to 40).
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VariablesProduction System
Transvariabel (contravariant) Transformation is
the focus Intervariabel (covariant) Connections
and interrelations
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Assumption
Interpretation of Production System as Hausdorff
Spaces
State-/ Transformation(Observable)
Projections
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Tangentspace (z.B. Rn, Vn)
Induced Mappings
Hausdorffspace ? Real System
Production System P
VariablesProduction System II
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Objectives intervariabel
transvariabel Resources Observables
transvariabel intervariabel
Need for new methods
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Innovations

VE (STN)

Short Term Network

(Virtual Organisation)

Long Term Network

(Centralized Network)

Files (online) of Suppliers

(IT connector problem)

Supplier Search

(e
-
procurement)

new partly new retrieval


Innovations of the approach