Business in the Cloud
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Inventory
High in-stock items, as well as backorders cause an imbalance between
supply and demand. A transparent stock management with an automated
alignment between procurement and warehouse alongside the supply chain
is necessary to regain balance and provide potential areas for optimization.
Furthermore it should be possible for the procurement to make decisions for
prospective orders based on statistical data available on demand. This
should enable a Just-In-Time supply chain with the suppliers.
Document management
Business activities are hard to reconstruct because of the decentralized
organization of the company. Work related documents are only available
locally; there is no overarching system for standardization and coordination.
A centralized data and document management is highly requested.
Quality management
In order to save money for R&D investments, simulation tests should be used
instead of cost and time intensive control programs. As a result both the
duration for development and the research investments should be reduced.
Logistics
The logistics department responsible for spare parts should be re-organized
to reduce downtimes and logistics costs, currently caused by the
decentralized organization.
Own Cloud App
In order to have a competitive edge, the customer should be able to
autonomously assemble the product by choosing from an online pool of
available choices.
In a first step several areas and processes, which might derive a benefit from the
employment of cloud services can be identified: Improvement of Internal
Communication, collaboration tools, centralized document management, on-
