It also forms a key part of the supply chain application set that the company is scheduled to roll out throughout the rest of 2003.
Supply Chain Business Modeler (SCBM) is designed to act as a single repository for all supply chain management data, managing data from disparate applications such as planning, order management, multi-mode manufacturing, and logistics applications, from a centralized point.
It includes a data warehouse, where the database has been designed for the needs of the manufacturing and distribution-centric companies the SCBM is targeted at, and a planning environment where organizations can model complete supply chains, enacting what if scenarios, for example, to determine the impact of specified activities on the supply chain.
It aims to provide visibility across the supply chain, enabling data to be stored once but presented in different ways to provide decision support for both tactical issues and long-term strategic plans. Significantly, both single and multiple supply chains can be supported, which means it is capable of supporting emerging activities such as multi-enterprise supply chain event management.
According to Ed Stubbs, solutions consultant at the Denver, Colorado-based enterprise business applications vendor, the application has been developed in response to customer demand for seamless integration between the disparate applications that are the norm within enterprise-level businesses, which it interprets as providing a cost-effective method of getting data out of ERP systems.
SCBM functions as an independent database, where ERP and other linked systems act as customers for its data. As such it is not reliant on other JD Edwards components, and this, in addition to its supply chain focus, is one of the factors that differentiates it from SAP’s Business Warehouse that forms the nearest equivalent offering.
Source: Computerwire
