APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSIMILATION OF SUPPLY CHAIN AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT (SCPM) FOR INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL AND AUTOMATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method includes obtaining information identifying transactions from multiple sources, the transactions related to multiple functional domains of a supply chain associated with at least one industrial process. The method also includes storing the information in a data store according to a unified model, the unified model representing all of the multiple sources. The method further includes generating one or more user-defined metrics and one or more user-defined analytics using the information. In addition, the method includes storing the metrics and the analytics in the data store.