Feasibility of Warehouse Drone Adoption and Implementation

While aerial delivery drones capture headlines, the pace of adoption of drones in warehouses has shown the greatest acceleration. Warehousing constitutes 30% of the cost of logistics in the US. The rise of e-commerce, greater customer service demands of retail stores, and a shortage of skilled labor have intensified competition for efficient warehouse operations. This takes place during an era of shortening technology life cycles. This paper integrates several theoretical perspectives on technology diffusion and adoption to propose a framework to inform supply chain decision-makers on when to invest in new robotics technology

Maximising the RFID benefits at the tyre distribution centre

In recent years the applications of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) in warehousing have gained a great amount of attention as it is a challenging and dynamic environment. Analysing a receiving operation of third party logistic (3PL) operator running a tyre distribution centre, this paper presents a case study of RFID application in the warehouse. The receiving process is enhanced with the RFID technology, which provides contactless identification, less manual data entry errors, instant stock management. Moreover, these benefits could be maximised by the proposed use of the RFID generated data in accounting of costs and services, which is a novel application of the RFID technology

A New Model of Supply Chain Management in a Web Service Oriented Architecture

none2This paper focuses on web innovation of the supply chain management of an expanded enterprise from the provision, production to final delivery of a product/service in accordance with customer requests. In an open architecture the technology of web services improves system performance in terms of cost, time and quality. The ability to interact online with all subjects of supply chain breaks down geographical barriers and ensuring timeliness and transparency of information. The enterprise becomes greater agile, flexible and speed in responding to customer needs and market changes.openD. Consoli; F. MussoConsoli, Domenico; Musso, Fabi