Milki-way:

A GIS enabled web-interface for Supply chain

management
used in Commodity Distribution

Presented By:
Ashok Philip Verghese
Deepu R.S.
Shabeerali
Thomas Emmanuel

15/11/06
 Contents
• Introduction
• Why milki-way ?
• Problem solution
• Our approach
• Database Design
• Implementation
• Work status
• Tools & Technologies used
• Features of Geoserver
• Further enhancements
• Acknowledgment
• References
 Introduction

• A web-based system developed with the help of GIS

and database that helps commodity manufactures and
distributors retrieve information for decision making
and deliver products efficiently and cost-effectively.

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 Why milki-way….?

• Distribution network configuration and Distribution

Strategy:Number and Location of retailers.

• Information: Integrate systems and processes through

the supply chain to share valuable information,
including demand signals, forecasts, inventory and
transportation.

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 Why milki-way….?(contd)

• Difficulty to analyze tabular-data in information system

• And visualize the optimum path

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Web + GIS ... what we can do to
solve these problems
• A Web enabled GIS can play a major role in real time
monitoring and decision support for effectively tackling
problems associated with supply chain logistics such
as production scheduling ,cost and transportation.

• This system can be implemented by using a

centralized database which stores upto date
information on all retailers from various geographical
locations.

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Web + GIS ... what we can do to
solve those problems(contd)
• Using a Web enabled GIS we could calculate the
optimum path for transportation at the lowest cost in
the given time.

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 Our approach to solving the
problem
The communities who use this system are classified into
two

• 1) Central Supplier

• 2) Retailers

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 Our approach to solving the
problem(contd)

• Central suppliers are the major users of all the

functionalities

• They can view all the orders for various commodities

from various retailers spread across different locations

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 Our approach to solving the
problem(contd)

• The interface for the central suppliers will provide a

powerful map with layered information of retailers.

• They can also generate reports based on different

criteria.

• We maintain a centralized database for keeping all

information related to these communities.

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milki-way System model

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Database Design

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Database Design(contd)

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IMPLEMENTATION
 Tools &Technologies used
• Geoserver
• PostGIS+ PostgreSQL
• Tomcat
• Eclipse
• JSP,Servlet,HTML

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 Work done so far….
• User Login
• Interface for retailer for product ordering
• Generated shape files from postgis data
• Designed spatial relationships to
calculate shortest path

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 Work yet to be implemented
• Bringing multiple thematic layers into a
single view.
• Producing dynamic layers by querying

We think this can be done using WFS

(web feature service) component of
geoserver.

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 Work to be done (contd)
• Finding the shortest path
With the help of the package pgdijkstra developed by
cartoweb we can find routing solutions using their
library functions.

1) assign_vertex_id(’roads’, 1)
2)create_graph_tables(’roads’, ‘int4′)
3)update_cost_from_distance(’roads’)
4)shortest_path_as_geometry(’roads’, 179551,
179681);
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 Features of Geoserver
• Fully compliant to WMS and WFS specifications
• Support for PostGIS, Shapefile, ArcSDE, DB2 and
Oracle
• Full SLD support, both user defined (POST and GET),
as well as used in styling configuration.
• Java (J2EE) servlet-based, can run in any servlet
container
• Embedded MapBuilder, a web mapping client, for
instant visualization

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 Further enhancements
• Mobile interface for retailers
• Extending to multiple suppliers

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 Acknowledgment
• Dr. Venkatesh Chopella
• Mr. T Radhakrishnan
• Chris Tweedie
• Friends

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 References:-
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOS/
• http://postgis.refractions.net/
• http://www.postgresql.org/
• http://cartoweb.org/contribs.html
• http://tomcat.apache.org/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_Chain_Management
• http://chris.narx.net/

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