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1 Intelligent Products and Intelligent Warehouses Mark Harrison mark.harrison@cantab.net Vaggelis Giannikas & Wenrong Lu eg366@cam.ac.uk & wl296@cam.ac.uk

2 Product Intelligence and Supply Chain Management Customer orders Traffic disruption (congestion, roadworks, incidents) Weather (observations, forecasts) Discovery of Resources & Negotiation (transport services/routes, local actuators (cooling)) etc. Available Open Data

3 Product Intelligence and Supply Chain Management Useful for: Managing unexpected events Customized orders Providing customers with improved visibility and control of their orders (even in transit) Disruption monitoring & control Dynamic rescheduling of storage/picking processes in warehouses

4 Product Intelligence in Freight Transportation A A B B K K N N R R L L P P T T O O S S Improved management of unexpected events and disruptions affecting the transportation of an order Dynamic rerouting of shipments Enhanced customer control over his order Information sharing about disruptions and alternative routing options among different stakeholders

5 Product Intelligence in Warehouse Management Achieving adaptive storage location assignments and dynamic order-picking rescheduling Auto-ID system for Product Classes, Material Equipment and Storage Locations to capture real-time information Software agents acting on behalf of the orders and product classes Negotiation mechanism between orders and product classes to determine the most effective way of utilising the resources within warehouses

6 Linked Data and Open Data as enabling technologies Open data about traffic disruptions and weather Web vocabularies about organizations, products, e-commerce Linked Data technologies (URIs, RDF, SPARQL) to explore relationships and connections across networks, to express needs and capabilities and do intelligent matching

7 Using Linked Data to improve product visibility Consumer specifies Product/Service and refines search using GPC attribute-value pairs Might also specify: budget, urgency buy locally / online GPC & att. -val. GTIN Store Location Price Mass, Volume, Nutritional Info etc. from B2B (GDSN) Trade Item Master Data Product Image & Description Start here! Convenient package(s) of information The Offer

8 Intelligent Products and Intelligent Warehouses Mark Harrison mark.harrison@cantab.net Vaggelis Giannikas & Wenrong Lu eg366@cam.ac.uk & wl296@cam.ac.uk


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