A hybrid multicloud system can effectively disseminate supply chain product information. It supports uploading item-by-item reports to traditional systems while also supporting industry-wide CMRT submissions and testing. Supplier data on multiple public and private clouds can be accessed by various departments for purchasing, design, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance. Reports evaluate substance thresholds in articles and parts, safe use information, renewability, and carbon footprinting. A hybrid multicloud provides flexibility, security, scalability, third party access, and cost effectiveness by using the best capabilities of different cloud technologies.

1. A Hybrid Multicloud System for
Effective Supply Chain Product
Information Dissemination
By
N. Nagaraj, PhD, PE
Chief, Papros Inc
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2. Outline / Agenda
● Discussion of typical supply chain data exchange
needs.
● Discussion of data types and platforms.
● Discussion of hybrid cloud versus multicloud.
● Discussion of field deployments, the processes,
nuances and the resulting observation.
● Benefits and advantages
● Conclusion
● Questions and Answers
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3. Platforms / Support
● Traditional upload to CAS2 system from desktop item-by-item report
allowing for corrections, additions, modifications and relating to
material data type by having a correlation table (also JAMP, 62474
etc).
● Traditional supplier submissions of 1752A, now 1754.
● Industry wide support for rollup and searches of CMRTs
● Industry wide test tool for verification of submitted 1752, 1753, 1754
and 1755.
● Support for third party cloud data storage using hybrid cloud
multicloud supporting full metrics and analysis also- how you can get
full access to all your data.
● Leading edge of XML providers to ensure being able to submit
product dossiers, on ECHA SCIP.
● PCN and PD XML for 2-15f
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4. Genesis and Provenance Typical Points
● Instantaneous composition and safe use update for SVHCs in
Articles across the entire supply chain—must be part number
based.
● When a supplier part number usage in BOM is known only to
the next level supplier, his supplier must be able to similarly
propagate the composition and safe use information
downstream.
● Fully secure, authenticated, machine to machine, little or no
human interface preferable.
● Must be able to interact multiple clouds private and public, and
data accessible by PLM, design, manufacture, storage and
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5. Clouds, Apps, and Activities
Purchasing and
Administration
Supplier data
Design Production
scheduling
Manufacturing floor
Customer
Facing
portal
Regulatory
needs
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7. Hybrid Cloud—Example
FileRequest
Suppliers
Company
Responses
Private
cloud
Public
cloud
Analysis
Metrics
Reports
From Desktop
Or from
Private cloud
Or another
Public cloudPublic cloud-
share or
synchronize
Desktop
Mobile or
PDA
Third
party
gadgets
Customers
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8. Typical Reports and Evaluations
● If it meets the criteria for an Article, and if the threshold
for some substances exceeded.
● Is it part of a BOM (Bill Of Materials) and is it flagged
as such in the BOM.
● The appropriate safe use information is to be linked.
● Renewable evaluation.
● Capture recycled material properly.
● Wastes and carbon footprinting.
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9. Other Factors
● Who owns the data kept? Where is kept? Is the
data accessible to your processes, and to
applications that need it such as PLM?
● Are the accesses metered, or a cost?
● Is the access web protocol based or proprietary?
● Fault tolerance of systems, and redundancy of
data, as well as hashes, signature.
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10. Observable Advantages
● Able to use the best of breed in each technology. The
FileRequest from suppliers uniquely redefines data gathering
from suppliers in the cloud.
● Such cloud data could be accessed from the desktop through
traditional applications such as ones for spreadsheet or
documents.
● Such cloud data could also be accessed through web
technologies on another cloud through secure authentication
and standards based handshakes.
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11. Results and Benefits
 An effective hybrid multicloud methodology enables
open data exchanges, security and authentication,
scalability, authorized third part accesses when needed.
 Flexibility of operations.
 Enables an open marketplace with no restrictions on
competition.
 Cost effectiveness-use of clouds optimized for
performance and price.
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