building a smarter supply chain

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Building a Smarter Supply ChainUniting JD Edwards and the Modern Web with Microservices, Devops, and the Hybrid Cloud

Jake Peyser

JDE INFOCUS ‘16 IBM Bluemix Developer Advocate

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The stack is not your friend

The key to rapid application

development is optimal

abstraction.

The PaaS and IaaS models

help deliver the right level for

developers.

Customer ManagedService Provider ManagedInfrastructure as

a Service

Code

Data

Runtime

Middleware

OS

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Code

Data

Runtime

Middleware

OS

Virtualization

Servers

Storage

Networking

Platform as a Service

Built ontechnologies:

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Where does Cloud Foundry fit in?

Cloud Foundry is the

underlying PaaS behind

Bluemix.

It enables teams to practice

continuous delivery by

making it easier to deploy,

run, and manage apps.

Flexible Compute Options to Run Apps / ServicesInstant Runtimes Containers Virtual Machines

Platform Deployment Options that Meet Your Workload Requirements

Bluemix Public

Bluemix Dedicated

Bluemix Local*

DevOps Tooling Your Own Hosted Apps / Services

Integration and API Mgmt

Powered by IBM SoftLayer In Your Data Center

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Catalog of Services that Extend Apps’ Functionality

Web Data Mobile AnalyticsCognitive IoT Security Yours

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Cloud Foundry Services

Types of services •Accounts for a SaaS application •Managed database on a multi-tenant server •Plans for messaging providers

How it works •When a user adds a service, an instance of that particular service is provisioned •A service broker handles communication between CF and the service itself •Service processes run on service nodes or with external as-a-service providers

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Hybrid Cloud

Microservices

DevOpsBig Data Internet of Things

Predictive Analytics Mobile Apps

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Tech Showcase

Hybrid Cloud Microservices DevOps

Hybrid cloud enables development teams to develop greenfield applications and deliver

new experiences that leverage existing on-premises IT.

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Tech Showcase

Hybrid Cloud Microservices DevOps

Microservices make building modular, scalable, fault-tolerant systems a reality.*

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Tech Showcase

Hybrid Cloud DevOps

DevOps as a culture and practice promotes inter-team collaboration, automated and

complete testing, and truly agile practices.

Microservices

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• Managing a supply chain is complex,

even with a modern ERP system

• Numerous choke points and bottlenecks

• Difficult to plan for variables that are out

of human control

• Traditional “visibility” is not up tomodern process control standards

• Much of today’s “smart” tech has yet to enter this lucrative space

Supply Chain Difficulties

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The percentage of consumers who are willing to wait a full week for free deliveries:

2012 50% 35%2014

By 2024, IDTechEx forecasts that the RFID market will rise to $27.31 billion

2012$6.96 B

2014$8.89 B

2024$27.31 B

Times they are a changin’

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WhatA snowstorm is currently moving towards the

northeast United States. Non-perishables and snow

equipment sells out two days before the storm,

creating thousands of unhappy customers.

Is it possible to train oursystems to prevent this in the future?

WhoA large big box retailer

How do we plan for this situation?

How do we apply the lessons learnedhere to similar scenarios?

The Snowstorm

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The Solution

Build a smart SCM solution that…

Analyzes and optimizes supply routes

Integrates with an on-premises ERP system

Uses real-time weather data to make dynamic shipment augmentations

Updates its own shipments using Watson IoT tech

Composed of scalable , fault-tolerant services

Deployable with the push of a button

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The Process

New shipments are dynamically generated based on the data

2

Corporate and retail managers are notified and asked for confirmation3

Shipping methods are chosen based on the severity of the event and distance to travel 4

Shipments update their own status using

Watson IoT

5

Anomalous weather patterns are detected and affected stores are identified

1

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The Heatwave

WhoA large appliance manufacturer

WhatThere is a heat wave in Europe and Pablo is in charge

of the European market, overseeing the order and

shipment of ACs. He is expected to meet upcoming

market demand with these rapidly changing

conditions.

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The Air Quality Index

WhoA large appliance manufacturer

WhatDemand for air purification devices in China

aligns with the air quality index (AQI). Tracking

and predicting this metric can result in increased

sales and customer health.

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Web Client

Weather Analytics RESTWebSockets

TCP/IP

NFCMQTT

Watson IoT

On-prem ERP System

Controller App

ERP App Recommendation App

servicediscovery

Secure Gateway

Watson IoT

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Web Client

Weather Analytics RESTWebSockets

TCP/IP

NFCMQTT

Watson IoT

On-prem ERP System

Controller App

ERP App Recommendation App

servicediscovery

Secure Gateway

Watson IoT

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Web Client

Weather Analytics RESTWebSockets

TCP/IP

NFCMQTT

Watson IoT

On-prem ERP System

Controller App

ERP App Recommendation App

servicediscovery

Secure Gateway

Watson IoT

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Web Client

Weather Analytics RESTWebSockets

TCP/IP

NFCMQTT

Watson IoT

On-prem ERP System

Controller App

ERP App Recommendation App

servicediscovery

Secure Gateway

Watson IoT

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Web Client

Weather Analytics RESTWebSockets

TCP/IP

NFCMQTT

Watson IoT

On-prem ERP System

Controller App

ERP App Recommendation App

servicediscovery

Secure Gateway

Watson IoT

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Web Client

Weather Analytics RESTWebSockets

TCP/IP

NFCMQTT

Watson IoT

On-prem ERP System

Controller App

ERP App Recommendation App

servicediscovery

Secure Gateway

Watson IoT

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Development Process

Plan Design Develop Deploy

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Plan

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Design

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Develop

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Deploy

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Continous Integration and Deployment

Controller App

Recommendation App

ERP App

Thank You! Questions?

@jakepeyser jepeyser@us.ibm.com

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Backup Slides

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More Bluemix Info

• What is Bluemix?

• Compute options on Bluemix

• Getting Started with Cloud Foundry on Bluemix (presentation)

• Cloud Foundry Services

• Build a smarter supply chain with Loopback (blog)

• Real-life production experience with Secure Gateway (blog)

• Using Service Discovery and Service Proxy (presentation)

• Master continuous integration and delivery with the IBM Devops Toolchain (blog)

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Development Tools

• Development Process Summary

• Develop

• GitHub / ZenHub* / Slack

• Design

• Sketch / Mural.ly / InVision

• Develop

• SublimeText / PyCharm / Postman* / Travis CI

• Deploy

• Bluemix / DevOps Toolchain / Coveralls

* Only available for Google Chrome

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Other Resources

• These slides in .key / .pptx / .pdf

• What is Code? by Paul Ford

• Supply chain tech companies

• Guiding Principles for supply chain tech

• Supply chain facts [2014]

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