1. SPICE TECHNOLOGY GROUP
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Business Intelligence I Data Integration
The Future Of Supply Chain 2010
“Cloud Based Services”
SAAS & the Supply Chain
Neel Sharma
Managing Partner
SPICE Technology GroupOct 23, 2010 Toronto Congress Center

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ABOUT SPICE TECHNOLOGY GROUP
• Toronto-based SPICE leverages modern “cloud”
technologies to help our manufacturing, retail &
distribution (MRD) customers improve their
competitive position substantially while also
lowering operating costs.
• We focus on bringing SAAS
business intelligence and
SAAS data integration
capabilities to our clients.
• Our customers find that our executive dashboards,
on-demand business reporting services and multi-
enterprise visibility & integration helps reduce
costs by as much as 50% and increase customer
service levels by 25%
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SAAS
BI & DI Platform
Managed Services
Reporting & Data Integration
Industry
Dashboards

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Supply Chain – Traditional Definition
Logistics, transportation, warehousing,
…possibly purchasing ….[OPERATIONAL]
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= Supply
Chain

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Supply Chain – Future
…An integrated focus on the global flow of
goods-cash-information across the value chain
[STRATEGIC]
BUY
MAKE
MOVE
SERVE
PLAN
SERVE
& SELL
MOVE MAKE
BUY
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Customers
Distributors
Raw Material
Component
Factory
Retail StoreSystem
Factory
Enterprise
Suppliers
Customers
Distributors
Raw Material
Component
Factory
Retail StoreSystem
Factory
Enterprise
Suppliers
Image: Aberdeen Group

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COMPUTING – a quick history
An evolution …..increase in speed and ubiquity,
decrease in costs
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Punch card Mainframes Mini Computers PC Client-Server Cloud & MobileInternet

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CLOUD COMPUTING
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Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software,
and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the
electricity grid.
Cloud computing is a paradigm shift following the shift from mainframe to client–server
in the early 1980s. Details are abstracted from the users, who no longer have need for
expertise in, or control over, the technology infrastructure "in the cloud" that supports
them.
- Wikipedia

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CLOUD: WHAT IS IT, REALLY?
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Data Centre
Business Logic
Knowledge
Business Process &
Resources
Mobile
Data & Code
Kitchen Sink
YOU
MARKET-READY
APPLICATIONS &
BUSINESS PROCESSES
AVAILABLE
ON-DEMAND
FIREWALL
ANYTHING-AS-A-SERVICE
Communities

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1. Infrastructure
Hardware, Data Centre
2. Middleware
Integration
3. Development
Tools, Code, Testing &
Support
5. Business
Process
4. Application
On-premise, Licenses
TRADITIONAL--ITDRIVEN
END USER
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
IAAS
Integration-as-a-Service
Cloud Integration, Cloud EDI, SOA
Development-as-a-Service
Platform-as-a-Service, Open Source, SOA
Business Process Outsource
BPO, Managed Services, ITeS
Software-as-a-Service
Hosted Single/ Multi-tenant, Usage-based
CLOUD--ENDUSERDRIVEN
SPEEDYAFFORDABLEAGILE

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Lower cost
Lower complexity
Faster time to market
No obsolescence
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BENEFITS OF “CLOUD”
$x,000s $x,000,000
1-2 Teams 5-10 Teams
Days/Weeks Months/Years
Utilization Licenses/Upgrades

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Supply Chain “EDI” for mid size
Retailer
• Traditional Model $3 M– 4M, 5
years to implement
• Cloud/SAAS Model: <$500k,
40 weeks-to-benefit
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“Supply Chain Custom App” for
mid size Retailer
• Traditional Model $1.5M, 2
years to implement
• Cloud/SAAS Model: <$100k,
30 weeks to benefit
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SAAS, CLOUD & THE SUPPLY
CHAIN –TOP INITIATIVES
eInvoicing
E-Commerce
Master Data & SKU
Rationalization
Multi-Channel
Integration
EDI & Web PO,
Invoice, ASN
Scan-based
Trading
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SC Infrastruvure
(ERP, WMS, etc)

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EVOLUTION OF SUPPLY
CHAIN PRIORITIES
PAST
CURRENT
FUTURE
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15. SPICE TECHNOLOGY GROUP
Better Data I Faster Insight
1-888-400-7950 Excited@spiceTG.com
Business Intelligence I Data Integration
Neel Sharma
Managing Partner
SPICE Technology Group
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