Tham khảo tài liệu 'supply chain, the way to flat organisation part 10', kỹ thuật - công nghệ, cơ khí - chế tạo máy phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Managing and Integrating Demand and Supply Using Web Services and the Service Oriented Architecture 261 Typically a Service Oriented Architecture is fronted by a client user interface that uses the underlying services. Depending on the business application a customized user interface is provided for customers that use the underlying services. Although the MIDAS client user interface that we have developed is specific to the manufacturing of a computer the components of which are obtained from different suppliers the underlying MIDAS system is general and can be used by manufacturers and suppliers of other kinds of products. Fig. 1. Use of MIDAS in a supply chain We consider here a three-level supply chain and a single manufacturer however as shown in Figure 1 the MIDAS strategy generalizes to deeper supply chains with N levels N 3 where a manufacturer is a supplier of the products it manufactures and a supplier is a manufacturer of the supplies that it offers. MIDAS is present at the businesses in the supply chain that act as both manufacturer and or supplier. By considering the entire supply chain MIDAS captures supply chain needs more effectively and provides faster adaptation to changing supply and demand. MIDAS makes use of the following concepts in supply chain management. A material consists of one or more components. For example a material for a computer is a particular computer model such as Dell XPS 1310 Sony Vaio SZ780 etc. A component is a particular category for which there are one or more supplies. For example the components of a computer include the processor memory chip graphics card network interface card etc. A supply is a product that is produced by a supplier. For example the supplies associated with a processor might include a 2GHz CPU and a 3GHz CPU. A supply can be obtained from one or more suppliers and the manufacturer can select the supplier of that supply dynamically. A supply item is an instance of a supply. For example the supply items .
