2. Applications – Processing data from core technologies
In this chapter, we'll look at the application areas of logistics – how we capture, serve and replenish customer orders.
2.1 Evolving software capabilities
In parallel with the explosion in computing performance, the tools that control computers have evolved. From the very simple binary language, where each element of the calculation had to be designed and programmed in binary code, there is now a panoply of tools that can manage all the functions of an information system synthetically, and with programming languages very close to natural languages. This is made possible by the meteoric increases in technical performance mentioned above.
You will recognize programming languages such as the ancestral Fortran, the Visual...
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Bibliography
Software tools
There is a huge range of software packages available in this field. Consulting firms such as the following can provide further information on the range of logistics packages on offer.
Gartner
http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp
Ardent
Websites
Supply Chain Digest
http://www.scdigest.com/ (page consulted on June 23, 2017)
Supply Chain Management Review
http://www.scmr.com/ (page consulted on August 21, 2017)
IACCM International Association...
Standards and norms
The ECCMA association has identified four types of "Master Data", under the ISO 22745 data quality standard. This standard makes it possible to draw the tree structure of suppliers' financial interests, as well as the technical specifications of each part, in order to identify functional equivalences.
When – ISO 8601 specifies the time and date in a non-ambiguous way, because some countries...
Events
ASLOG Congress – Association Française Supply Chain et Logistique.
https://www.aslog.org/fr/index.php
EyeForTransport Congress
RILA Conference – Retail Industry Leaders of America
Directory
Organizations – Federations – Associations (non-exhaustive list)
ASCM – the Association for Supply Chain Management, formerly APICS – the American Production and Inventory Control Society
http://www.apics.org/ (viewed August 21, 2017)
ASLOG – Association Française Supply Chain et Logistique,...
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