ObjectSecurity SCRAMS\u2122 (Supply Chain Risk Analysis and Management Solution) helps organizations analyze and manage supply chain risks by processing procurement data into actionable insights. SCRAMS provides organizations with visibility into their supply chain to determine supply chain risks. While others mostly focus on financial risks, for example due to loss of production, our SCRAMS solution also focuses on malicious fault injection by adversaries, granular access control, and atypical suppliers\/items.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
What<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>Ingest information from your ERP – for example SAP) – and other sources into SCRAMS, and let it intelligently \u201cconnect the dots\u201d to provides visibility and\u00a0 insights. Once done, you can run smart searches across the analyzed data, and run automated analytics. You can also generate actionable reports. To use SCRAMS, upload your procurement data from sources like SAP ERP, other ERPs, and spreadsheets. SCRAMS will automatically identify supply chain anomalies, including counterfeit, modified, sub-par QA items, and vendor and shipping issues. It also enriches the results with public information from sources like counterfeit databases, social media, and news. SCRAMS then provides supply chain risk managers with a detailed, consolidated report to help them quickly address the most critical risks. Originally designed for IT and microelectronics purchases, SCRAMS is widely applicable. For microelectronics, it can help determine the bill of materials for circuit boards and automatically searches for anomalies in circuit boards and parts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/lite-youtube><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Why<\/h2><\/div>The rationale behind SCRAMS is that supply chain risk analysis today is often still done ad-hoc and manually, for example using spreadsheets \u2013 but organizations today need better and more timely visibility into their supply chains, in order to be able to react to supply chain risks better and faster.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Identify supply chain risk indicators across your procurement data<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Convenient searching and automated analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Ingest your procurement data from SAP + more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Customizable platform<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Supply Chain Visibility<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nHaving good supply chain visibility allows you to keep track of individual components from your suppliers. Good visibility enables timely risk identifications and allows you to maneuver inventory, avoid bottlenecks, ensure quality, and meet demands. One of the greatest challenges is manage risk and visibility across partner networks on a global scale.
\nSCRAMS provides quick risk visibility of your suppliers. The analysis report saves you time on researching and screening your suppliers one by one. SCRAMS not only conducts a background check based on your supplier\u2019s unique CAGE number but also scavenges the internet for any news regarding each supplier. SCRAMS is a quick and easy way to gain visibility to your suppliers and effectively manage your supply risks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span> Risk Identification<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nOn a global scale, supply chains face many risks such as environmental catastrophes, transport loss, counterfeit production, economic instability, etc. Identifying and addressing those risks in a timely manner allows the supply chain to meet demands continuously. However, these risks are often unpredictable and costly for the business. Therefore, having preemptive supply chain risk indicators is crucial for developing a sustainable supply chain.
\nSCRAMS provides detailed reports regarding pricing anomalies, supplier anomalies, and any geographical situations that might potentially risk the deliverability of your supply chain. SCRAMS provides a customized report based on your uploaded procurement information!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Optimization<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nOptimization of supply chain is one of the key factors to a successful business. How do you guarantee quality, quantity, deliverability, and profit? By minimizing cost and improving performance, an efficient supply chain could not only generate the highest level of profit but also increase customer satisfaction. However, optimizing supply chain is a difficult process because of its complexity. Supply chain manager often struggle to find the optimal balance between, costs of manufacturing, inventory, transportation, yield, and fulfillment. In addition, the supply chain configuration is constantly fluctuating depending on changes in the customer expectations, material cost, carrier pricings, and even geo-political factors.
\nSCRAMS can help you simplify the supply chain analysis process for optimization. The pricing and vendor anomaly reports allows you to instantly filter out suppliers who are charging too much or have an untrustworthy history. The geo-location event search report gives you the latest updates risk indicators on your suppliers based on their geographical locations. SCRAMS is a quick and easy tool to help you minimize cost while guaranteeing supplier quality during your supply chain optimization process.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span> Cost of Implementation<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nTo avoid cost, many companies choose to use spreadsheets as an organization solution for supply chain. However, using spreadsheets makes it more difficult to provide supply chain visibility and identify potential risk indicators. On the other hand, implementing a customized SAP ERP program is often too costly and unnecessary for the current stage of business.
\nSCRAMS provides essential key analytics such as price anomaly, vendor anomaly, product general analysis, and geo-location event analysis. If you are interested in more advanced analytics, the SCRAMS Enterprise edition may be right for you.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
How<\/h2><\/div>SCRAMS ingests procurement data and other data sources, including open source supply chain intelligence, and makes it searchable using advanced drill-down searching and visualization – and automatically analyzes the supply chain data for anomalies indicating supply chain risks:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Drill-Down Search<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nSCRAMS allows users to drill-down search the data using a text input field and search buttons automatically determined by the graph structure. For example, a user can search for a product by typing text in the field and selecting the \u2018Product Name\u2019 button to search the DB. The result is displayed in a table with buttons to save, export and print. Users can narrow down displayed search results through a provided text input field on top of the result table. Further drill-down searching is available from each search step result: The left column of the result table usually contains checkboxes that allow the user to select particular rows for deeper search. Once the selection is made, users can select a button from the button menu and SCRAMS will search and return those drill-down search results, again in tables containing data relationships and information.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/objectsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scrams1.png?resize=800%2C391&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Automated Risk Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nSCRAMS supports automatic algorithmic analysis of the data, which identifies and aggregates \u201crisk indicator\u201d results based on requirements provided by Navy\u2019s SCRM Lead, such as product pricing anomalies, vendor location mismatch, CAGE code anomalies, component serial number anomalies, etc. The results are SCRM \u201crisk indicators\u201d, not conclusive risk determinations, because surrounding factors are analyzed, rather than the actual ICT parts.\u00a0 The analyses are automatically executed periodically. Risk indicator information is automatically displayed on the landing page when the user logs in. The SCRAMS app can also push (e.g. email) risk indicator reports to notify designated users.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/objectsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scrams2.png?resize=800%2C265&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Visualization<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nUsers can also visualize search results graphically in 2D, 3D, and in virtual reality (proof-of-concept feature).<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/objectsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scrams3.png?resize=724%2C420&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Data Ingestion<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nThe SCRAMS application ingests a data dump from SAP ERP (incl. SAP-based installations such as Navy ERP) etc. The data is processed, converted, and ingested into a graph database (Neo4j) to build a node\/relationship-based data graph that is used intensively by SCRAMS\u2019s search and analytics features (see Figure below). SCRAMS enriches the graph with data from additional data sources (such as CAGE info from SAM, location from Google Maps, etc.).<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/objectsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scrams4.png?resize=800%2C387&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>File Upload, Text Extraction<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nUsers can upload files in 1000+ supported formats from the SCRAMS web interface, including images. SCRAMS extracts the text (incl. from images, using OCR), and indexes the extracted text to allow full-text searching from within the SCRAMS web UI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Export Result & Save\/Load Queries <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nUsers can export results (in table form) into Excel\/PDF\/Word. Users can also save current search results (both results snapshots of current results, and queries).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Fine-Grained Access Control & SSO<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nThe SCRAMS app interacts with SCRAMS\u2019s externalized attribute-based access control (ABAC) system, which is based on our innovative OpenPMF security policy automation product, openpmf.com). SCRAMS obtains fine-grained permission information via OpenPMF\u2019s ClientSDK feature, which control access at a fine granularity (individual Web UI menus and buttons etc.). In other words, users in different groups get different menus and buttons on their web UI. Furthermore, SCRAMS supports industry-standard single sign-on (SSO) using OpenID Connect via Tomcat.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Architecture<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nOur fully functioning, robust SCRAMS application prototype is a Java web application running on a web application server (Tomcat), that provides users access from web browsers.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/objectsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/scrams5.png?resize=800%2C464&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
SCRAMS Enterprise\u2122 vs. easySCRAMS\u2122<\/h2><\/div>SCRAMS comes in two flavors: The SCRAMS Enterprise\u2122 version offers advanced analytics, customized reporting, and enhanced search capabilities. easySCRAMS\u2122 is a simpler, packaged version for smaller needs. Both versions support data ingestion from various sources, automated risk analysis, and detailed visualizations. They are designed to improve supply chain visibility and identify potential risks efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
easySCRAMS\u2122<\/h3><\/div>Simply upload your procurement data – easySCRAMS will automatically analyze it for supply chain risks and improve your supply chain visibility and optimization.<\/p>\n
The Easy 5 Step Solution for Supply Chain Analysis:<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span> Select Input Data<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\n\n- Many different input types to choose from<\/li>\n
- Click the [?] for help and example templates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/objectsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/easyscrams1new.png?resize=568%2C447&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Upload Data<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\n\n- Simply drag\/drop or upload your procurement data<\/li>\n
- You can upload multiple files of the same type! easySCRAMS can analyze all uploaded files for one comprehensive analysis report<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/objectsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/easyscrams2new.png?resize=688%2C541&ssl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Ingest information from your ERP – for example SAP) – and other sources into SCRAMS, and let it intelligently \u201cconnect the dots\u201d to provides visibility and\u00a0 insights. Once done, you can run smart searches across the analyzed data, and run automated analytics. You can also generate actionable reports. To use SCRAMS, upload your procurement data from sources like SAP ERP, other ERPs, and spreadsheets. SCRAMS will automatically identify supply chain anomalies, including counterfeit, modified, sub-par QA items, and vendor and shipping issues. It also enriches the results with public information from sources like counterfeit databases, social media, and news. SCRAMS then provides supply chain risk managers with a detailed, consolidated report to help them quickly address the most critical risks. Originally designed for IT and microelectronics purchases, SCRAMS is widely applicable. For microelectronics, it can help determine the bill of materials for circuit boards and automatically searches for anomalies in circuit boards and parts.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Why<\/h2><\/div>The rationale behind SCRAMS is that supply chain risk analysis today is often still done ad-hoc and manually, for example using spreadsheets \u2013 but organizations today need better and more timely visibility into their supply chains, in order to be able to react to supply chain risks better and faster.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Identify supply chain risk indicators across your procurement data<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Convenient searching and automated analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Ingest your procurement data from SAP + more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Customizable platform<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Supply Chain Visibility<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nHaving good supply chain visibility allows you to keep track of individual components from your suppliers. Good visibility enables timely risk identifications and allows you to maneuver inventory, avoid bottlenecks, ensure quality, and meet demands. One of the greatest challenges is manage risk and visibility across partner networks on a global scale.
\nSCRAMS provides quick risk visibility of your suppliers. The analysis report saves you time on researching and screening your suppliers one by one. SCRAMS not only conducts a background check based on your supplier\u2019s unique CAGE number but also scavenges the internet for any news regarding each supplier. SCRAMS is a quick and easy way to gain visibility to your suppliers and effectively manage your supply risks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span> Risk Identification<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nOn a global scale, supply chains face many risks such as environmental catastrophes, transport loss, counterfeit production, economic instability, etc. Identifying and addressing those risks in a timely manner allows the supply chain to meet demands continuously. However, these risks are often unpredictable and costly for the business. Therefore, having preemptive supply chain risk indicators is crucial for developing a sustainable supply chain.
\nSCRAMS provides detailed reports regarding pricing anomalies, supplier anomalies, and any geographical situations that might potentially risk the deliverability of your supply chain. SCRAMS provides a customized report based on your uploaded procurement information!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Optimization<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nOptimization of supply chain is one of the key factors to a successful business. How do you guarantee quality, quantity, deliverability, and profit? By minimizing cost and improving performance, an efficient supply chain could not only generate the highest level of profit but also increase customer satisfaction. However, optimizing supply chain is a difficult process because of its complexity. Supply chain manager often struggle to find the optimal balance between, costs of manufacturing, inventory, transportation, yield, and fulfillment. In addition, the supply chain configuration is constantly fluctuating depending on changes in the customer expectations, material cost, carrier pricings, and even geo-political factors.
\nSCRAMS can help you simplify the supply chain analysis process for optimization. The pricing and vendor anomaly reports allows you to instantly filter out suppliers who are charging too much or have an untrustworthy history. The geo-location event search report gives you the latest updates risk indicators on your suppliers based on their geographical locations. SCRAMS is a quick and easy tool to help you minimize cost while guaranteeing supplier quality during your supply chain optimization process.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span> Cost of Implementation<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nTo avoid cost, many companies choose to use spreadsheets as an organization solution for supply chain. However, using spreadsheets makes it more difficult to provide supply chain visibility and identify potential risk indicators. On the other hand, implementing a customized SAP ERP program is often too costly and unnecessary for the current stage of business.
\nSCRAMS provides essential key analytics such as price anomaly, vendor anomaly, product general analysis, and geo-location event analysis. If you are interested in more advanced analytics, the SCRAMS Enterprise edition may be right for you.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
How<\/h2><\/div>SCRAMS ingests procurement data and other data sources, including open source supply chain intelligence, and makes it searchable using advanced drill-down searching and visualization – and automatically analyzes the supply chain data for anomalies indicating supply chain risks:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Drill-Down Search<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nSCRAMS allows users to drill-down search the data using a text input field and search buttons automatically determined by the graph structure. For example, a user can search for a product by typing text in the field and selecting the \u2018Product Name\u2019 button to search the DB. The result is displayed in a table with buttons to save, export and print. Users can narrow down displayed search results through a provided text input field on top of the result table. Further drill-down searching is available from each search step result: The left column of the result table usually contains checkboxes that allow the user to select particular rows for deeper search. Once the selection is made, users can select a button from the button menu and SCRAMS will search and return those drill-down search results, again in tables containing data relationships and information.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Automated Risk Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nSCRAMS supports automatic algorithmic analysis of the data, which identifies and aggregates \u201crisk indicator\u201d results based on requirements provided by Navy\u2019s SCRM Lead, such as product pricing anomalies, vendor location mismatch, CAGE code anomalies, component serial number anomalies, etc. The results are SCRM \u201crisk indicators\u201d, not conclusive risk determinations, because surrounding factors are analyzed, rather than the actual ICT parts.\u00a0 The analyses are automatically executed periodically. Risk indicator information is automatically displayed on the landing page when the user logs in. The SCRAMS app can also push (e.g. email) risk indicator reports to notify designated users.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Visualization<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nUsers can also visualize search results graphically in 2D, 3D, and in virtual reality (proof-of-concept feature).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Data Ingestion<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nThe SCRAMS application ingests a data dump from SAP ERP (incl. SAP-based installations such as Navy ERP) etc. The data is processed, converted, and ingested into a graph database (Neo4j) to build a node\/relationship-based data graph that is used intensively by SCRAMS\u2019s search and analytics features (see Figure below). SCRAMS enriches the graph with data from additional data sources (such as CAGE info from SAM, location from Google Maps, etc.).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>File Upload, Text Extraction<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nUsers can upload files in 1000+ supported formats from the SCRAMS web interface, including images. SCRAMS extracts the text (incl. from images, using OCR), and indexes the extracted text to allow full-text searching from within the SCRAMS web UI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Export Result & Save\/Load Queries <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nUsers can export results (in table form) into Excel\/PDF\/Word. Users can also save current search results (both results snapshots of current results, and queries).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Fine-Grained Access Control & SSO<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nThe SCRAMS app interacts with SCRAMS\u2019s externalized attribute-based access control (ABAC) system, which is based on our innovative OpenPMF security policy automation product, openpmf.com). SCRAMS obtains fine-grained permission information via OpenPMF\u2019s ClientSDK feature, which control access at a fine granularity (individual Web UI menus and buttons etc.). In other words, users in different groups get different menus and buttons on their web UI. Furthermore, SCRAMS supports industry-standard single sign-on (SSO) using OpenID Connect via Tomcat.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Architecture<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\nOur fully functioning, robust SCRAMS application prototype is a Java web application running on a web application server (Tomcat), that provides users access from web browsers.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
SCRAMS Enterprise\u2122 vs. easySCRAMS\u2122<\/h2><\/div>SCRAMS comes in two flavors: The SCRAMS Enterprise\u2122 version offers advanced analytics, customized reporting, and enhanced search capabilities. easySCRAMS\u2122 is a simpler, packaged version for smaller needs. Both versions support data ingestion from various sources, automated risk analysis, and detailed visualizations. They are designed to improve supply chain visibility and identify potential risks efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
easySCRAMS\u2122<\/h3><\/div>Simply upload your procurement data – easySCRAMS will automatically analyze it for supply chain risks and improve your supply chain visibility and optimization.<\/p>\n
The Easy 5 Step Solution for Supply Chain Analysis:<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span> Select Input Data<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\n\n- Many different input types to choose from<\/li>\n
- Click the [?] for help and example templates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Upload Data<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>\n\n- Simply drag\/drop or upload your procurement data<\/li>\n
- You can upload multiple files of the same type! easySCRAMS can analyze all uploaded files for one comprehensive analysis report<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
The rationale behind SCRAMS is that supply chain risk analysis today is often still done ad-hoc and manually, for example using spreadsheets \u2013 but organizations today need better and more timely visibility into their supply chains, in order to be able to react to supply chain risks better and faster.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
- <\/i><\/span>\n
Identify supply chain risk indicators across your procurement data<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>
\nConvenient searching and automated analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>
\nIngest your procurement data from SAP + more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li>
- <\/i><\/span>
\nCustomizable platform<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Supply Chain Visibility<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nHaving good supply chain visibility allows you to keep track of individual components from your suppliers. Good visibility enables timely risk identifications and allows you to maneuver inventory, avoid bottlenecks, ensure quality, and meet demands. One of the greatest challenges is manage risk and visibility across partner networks on a global scale.
\nSCRAMS provides quick risk visibility of your suppliers. The analysis report saves you time on researching and screening your suppliers one by one. SCRAMS not only conducts a background check based on your supplier\u2019s unique CAGE number but also scavenges the internet for any news regarding each supplier. SCRAMS is a quick and easy way to gain visibility to your suppliers and effectively manage your supply risks.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span> Risk Identification<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nOn a global scale, supply chains face many risks such as environmental catastrophes, transport loss, counterfeit production, economic instability, etc. Identifying and addressing those risks in a timely manner allows the supply chain to meet demands continuously. However, these risks are often unpredictable and costly for the business. Therefore, having preemptive supply chain risk indicators is crucial for developing a sustainable supply chain.
\nSCRAMS provides detailed reports regarding pricing anomalies, supplier anomalies, and any geographical situations that might potentially risk the deliverability of your supply chain. SCRAMS provides a customized report based on your uploaded procurement information!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>Optimization<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nOptimization of supply chain is one of the key factors to a successful business. How do you guarantee quality, quantity, deliverability, and profit? By minimizing cost and improving performance, an efficient supply chain could not only generate the highest level of profit but also increase customer satisfaction. However, optimizing supply chain is a difficult process because of its complexity. Supply chain manager often struggle to find the optimal balance between, costs of manufacturing, inventory, transportation, yield, and fulfillment. In addition, the supply chain configuration is constantly fluctuating depending on changes in the customer expectations, material cost, carrier pricings, and even geo-political factors.
\nSCRAMS can help you simplify the supply chain analysis process for optimization. The pricing and vendor anomaly reports allows you to instantly filter out suppliers who are charging too much or have an untrustworthy history. The geo-location event search report gives you the latest updates risk indicators on your suppliers based on their geographical locations. SCRAMS is a quick and easy tool to help you minimize cost while guaranteeing supplier quality during your supply chain optimization process.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span> Cost of Implementation<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nTo avoid cost, many companies choose to use spreadsheets as an organization solution for supply chain. However, using spreadsheets makes it more difficult to provide supply chain visibility and identify potential risk indicators. On the other hand, implementing a customized SAP ERP program is often too costly and unnecessary for the current stage of business.
\nSCRAMS provides essential key analytics such as price anomaly, vendor anomaly, product general analysis, and geo-location event analysis. If you are interested in more advanced analytics, the SCRAMS Enterprise edition may be right for you.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>How<\/h2><\/div>
SCRAMS ingests procurement data and other data sources, including open source supply chain intelligence, and makes it searchable using advanced drill-down searching and visualization – and automatically analyzes the supply chain data for anomalies indicating supply chain risks:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Drill-Down Search<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nSCRAMS allows users to drill-down search the data using a text input field and search buttons automatically determined by the graph structure. For example, a user can search for a product by typing text in the field and selecting the \u2018Product Name\u2019 button to search the DB. The result is displayed in a table with buttons to save, export and print. Users can narrow down displayed search results through a provided text input field on top of the result table. Further drill-down searching is available from each search step result: The left column of the result table usually contains checkboxes that allow the user to select particular rows for deeper search. Once the selection is made, users can select a button from the button menu and SCRAMS will search and return those drill-down search results, again in tables containing data relationships and information.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>Automated Risk Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nSCRAMS supports automatic algorithmic analysis of the data, which identifies and aggregates \u201crisk indicator\u201d results based on requirements provided by Navy\u2019s SCRM Lead, such as product pricing anomalies, vendor location mismatch, CAGE code anomalies, component serial number anomalies, etc. The results are SCRM \u201crisk indicators\u201d, not conclusive risk determinations, because surrounding factors are analyzed, rather than the actual ICT parts.\u00a0 The analyses are automatically executed periodically. Risk indicator information is automatically displayed on the landing page when the user logs in. The SCRAMS app can also push (e.g. email) risk indicator reports to notify designated users.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>Visualization<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nUsers can also visualize search results graphically in 2D, 3D, and in virtual reality (proof-of-concept feature).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>Data Ingestion<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nThe SCRAMS application ingests a data dump from SAP ERP (incl. SAP-based installations such as Navy ERP) etc. The data is processed, converted, and ingested into a graph database (Neo4j) to build a node\/relationship-based data graph that is used intensively by SCRAMS\u2019s search and analytics features (see Figure below). SCRAMS enriches the graph with data from additional data sources (such as CAGE info from SAM, location from Google Maps, etc.).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/i><\/i><\/span>File Upload, Text Extraction<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nUsers can upload files in 1000+ supported formats from the SCRAMS web interface, including images. SCRAMS extracts the text (incl. from images, using OCR), and indexes the extracted text to allow full-text searching from within the SCRAMS web UI.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Export Result & Save\/Load Queries <\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nUsers can export results (in table form) into Excel\/PDF\/Word. Users can also save current search results (both results snapshots of current results, and queries).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Fine-Grained Access Control & SSO<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nThe SCRAMS app interacts with SCRAMS\u2019s externalized attribute-based access control (ABAC) system, which is based on our innovative OpenPMF security policy automation product, openpmf.com). SCRAMS obtains fine-grained permission information via OpenPMF\u2019s ClientSDK feature, which control access at a fine granularity (individual Web UI menus and buttons etc.). In other words, users in different groups get different menus and buttons on their web UI. Furthermore, SCRAMS supports industry-standard single sign-on (SSO) using OpenID Connect via Tomcat.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/i><\/i><\/span>Architecture<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
\nOur fully functioning, robust SCRAMS application prototype is a Java web application running on a web application server (Tomcat), that provides users access from web browsers.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>SCRAMS Enterprise\u2122 vs. easySCRAMS\u2122<\/h2><\/div>
SCRAMS comes in two flavors: The SCRAMS Enterprise\u2122 version offers advanced analytics, customized reporting, and enhanced search capabilities. easySCRAMS\u2122 is a simpler, packaged version for smaller needs. Both versions support data ingestion from various sources, automated risk analysis, and detailed visualizations. They are designed to improve supply chain visibility and identify potential risks efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
easySCRAMS\u2122<\/h3><\/div>
Simply upload your procurement data – easySCRAMS will automatically analyze it for supply chain risks and improve your supply chain visibility and optimization.<\/p>\n
The Easy 5 Step Solution for Supply Chain Analysis:<\/p>\n<\/div>
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- Many different input types to choose from<\/li>\n
- Click the [?] for help and example templates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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- Simply drag\/drop or upload your procurement data<\/li>\n
- You can upload multiple files of the same type! easySCRAMS can analyze all uploaded files for one comprehensive analysis report<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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