Eugen Volk

High Performance Computing Center – HLRSUniversity Stuttgart

volk@hlrs.de

AgroGridComposition and Monitoring of

dynamic Supply Chains

Outline

What is AgroGridMotivationScenario AgroGrid ArchitectureSupply Chain CompositionSupply Chain MonitoringConclusions

What is AgroGrid

• AgroGrid is a Business Experiment within FP6 EU-Project BEinGRID

• BEinGRID www.beingrid.eu – Project start date: 1st June 2006– Duration: 42 months (Nov 2009)– Budget: 24.7 M Euros – Consortium: 95 partners – 25 Business Experiments (BEs) designed to implement and

deploy Grid solutions in industrial key sectors.

• AgroGrid: applying Grid in agriculture food domain – start date: March 2008– Duration: 12 Months– 4 partners

Motivation: Situation Today

• Participants in agricultural food markets interoperate in fixed supply chain structures with long term contract relations

• High market mismatch: Many small primary producers face few large food retail companies

• Tracking and tracing in isolated and in parts paper-based systems on enterprise level

• Companies have no market for food-related overcapacities (e.g. production) and companies temporarily needing more capacities cannot find them

• High transaction costs for niche markets (e.g. special treated fruit)

According to Gartner fulfilling EU regulation 178/2002 (global tracking and tracing) requires successful Identification, Tracking and Collaboration

Motivation: Why AgroGrid

AgroGrid offers a full lifecycle solution for a dynamic capacity market with integrated Tracking & Tracing and automated SLA-Monitoring & SLA-Evaluation in the agriculture domain

• A Grid-based market place for capacities in agriculture & food domain

• Dynamic Virtual Organizations around a certain product purpose

• SLA-Monitoring & -Evaluation ensuring contracts and fulfillment

• Quality monitoring and efficient gap-free decentralized tracking & tracing using already established GTNet (Global Traceability Network) infrastructure

Scenario• Roles

– Producer (of apricots) – Consolidator– Retailer– Logistics Company

RetailerConsolidator Producer LogisticsLogistics

• Use-Cases– Capacity Publication– Capacity Query– Negotiation– Supply Chain setup – SLA-Monitoring & Evaluation– Reporting

AgroGrid ArchitectureProducer

Track & Trace

Logistics Provider

Track & Trace

Retailer

Track & Trace

AgroGrid Provider

Portal

AAABaseVO-Registry

Capacity Registry

SLA-Editing

SLA-EvaluationReporting

SLA-Negotiation Frontend

VO-Visualisation

BaseVO-Management

User-Management

Capacity query

Capacity publishing

Supply-ChainTemplate

Repository

Consolidator(SC-Manager)

Track & Trace

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

SLA-Evaluation

SLA-Monitoring

VO-Management

GTNet

ComponentDomainPortlet

Legend

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

Supply Chain Composition - Agreements

SLA

SLASLA

SLA SLA

Contract based relationships between members

• Supply Chain as a VO (hub & spoke model)

• Supply chain manager manages membership of partners in the supply chain

• Steps:

• Capacity Publication

• Capacity Query

• Negotiation

• Contracting

Retailer R

Consolidator C(SC-Mgr of SC1)

Producer PLogistic LA

(SC-Mgr of SC2)

Logistic LX Logistic LY SC2

Logistic LB

SC1

Supply Chain Composition - SLA-Structure

• Compliant to WS-Agreement• Contains Guarantee-Terms

– Product quality– Quantity– Price– Environmental conditions

of food during storage or transport– Penalty for violation of env. conditions– Delivery date– Penalty for violation of delivery date

Producer

Track & Trace

Logistics Provider

Track & Trace

Retailer

Track & Trace

AgroGrid Provider

Portal

AAABaseVO-Registry

Capacity Registry

SLA-Editing

SLA-EvaluationReporting

SLA-Negotiation Frontend

VO-Visualisation

BaseVO-Management

User-Management

Capacity query

Capacity publishing

Supply-ChainTemplate

Repository

Consolidator(SC-Manager)

Track & Trace

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

SLA-Evaluation

SLA-Monitoring

VO-Management

GTNet

ComponentDomainPortlet

Legend

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Templ.-Rep.

Monitoring of supply chain – querying data

Monitoring of supply chain – hierarchy

Retailer RConsolidator C(SC-Mgr of SC1)

Producer P

SC-Mgr of SC1

SC2 Logistic LB

SC-Mgr of SC2

Logistic LX

SC2

Logistic LYLogistic LA

(SC-Mgr of SC2)

SC1

Retailer R

Consolidator C(SC-Mgr of SC1)

Producer PLogistic LA

(SC-Mgr of SC2)

Logistic LX Logistic LY SC2

Logistic LB

SC1

AgroGrid Architecture

VO-ManagementTrack & Trace

AgroGrid Provider

Supply-Chain Manager

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Template-Rep.

SLA-ManagementSLA-MonitoringSLA-Evaluation

Track & Trace

Supply-Chain Member

SLA-NegotiationSLA-Template-Rep.

Portal

AAACapacity-RegistryBaseVO-RegistrySC-Templ.-Repos

SLA-ManagementSLA-MonitoringSLA-Evaluation

VO-Management

GTNet-Hub

Optional

Conclusions

• AgroGrid applies Grid concepts to IT in food domain• AgroGrid establishes Grid based market place• Composition of dynamic supply chains through VO approach• Monitoring and Evaluation of SLAs ensures food safety in

dynamic supply chains • Aggregated Monitoring concept is used to hide supply chain

structure from competitors• Realization of AgroGrid is based on BEinGRID components,

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CGW 2008 Eugen Volk

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