Competitive advantage from IT in logistics: The integrated transport tracking system

Loebbecke, Claudia; Powell, Philip

doi:10.1016/s0268-4012(97)00037-6

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“…Also, the accessibility of delivery status at any time and the immediate notification of delays or other delivery problems are regarded as basic information needs in the logistics chain (Loebbecke and Powell, 1998). There are two main reasons for the importance of tracking shipments.…”

Section: The Benefits Of Tracking Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficient tracking for short‐term multi‐company networks

Kärkkäinen¹,

Ala‐Risku²,

Främling³

2004

International Journal of Physical Distribution &Amp; Logistics Management

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Tracking of shipments is an important element of customer service in the transportation industry; and essential for logistics services as merge-in-transit. However, contemporary tracking systems are designed for use within a single company, and are thus invariably inadequate for multi-company environments. The single company focus has led to a reduced span of monitoring and a diluted accessibility of information due to proprietary tracking codes and information architectures centred on the tracking service provider. This paper presents a novel forwarder-independent approach for solving the difficulties of tracking in multi-company supply networks. The research argues that the proposed tracking approach is superior to contemporary approaches for material flow tracking in short-term multi-company distribution networks.

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Section: The Benefits Of Tracking Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficient tracking for short‐term multi‐company networks

Kärkkäinen¹,

Ala‐Risku²,

Främling³

2004

International Journal of Physical Distribution &Amp; Logistics Management

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“…This issue is relevant because the green initiatives adoption by companies operating in this industry could play a pivotal role towards the achievement of environmental sustainability strategies affecting the entire supply chain (Brockhaus, Kersten, & Knemeyer, ; Dhakal, Smith, & Newbery, ; Laari, Töyli, & Ojala, ; Reinerth, Busse, & Wagner, ; Schnittfeld & Busch, ; Waller, Fawcett, & Johnson, ). In addition, in the literature, there is a variety of definitions of green initiatives that converge into two main definitions according to an organisational and a technological perspective: (a) green initiatives as green practices supporting the green aims through organisational methods or techniques, for example, eco‐driving, empty running reduction, full vehicle loading, and routing techniques to minimise travel distances (Lieb & Lieb, ; Perotti, Zorzini, Cagno, & Micheli, ; Pieters, Glockner, Omta, & Weijers, ); (b) green initiatives as information systems supporting the green practices, for example, emissions control systems and real‐time locating systems (Iacob, Van Sinderen, Steenwijk, & Verkroost, ; Loebbecke & Powell, ).…”

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Evaluating environmental sustainability strategies in freight transport and logistics industry

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This paper provides a conceptual framework on green initiatives adoption in companies operating in freight transport and logistics industry and presents an overview on the emerging green practices and information systems adopted. On the basis of a literature review on the topic, a research question was identified and addressed through an analysis conducted in a sample of freight transport and logistics companies. This research question regards the behaviours of freight transporters in adopting green practices and information systems. As for the adoption of both green practices and information systems, the paper shows that freight transporters are not a homogeneous industry, but different types of behaviour emerge. As for the relationship between the degree of adoption of green practices and information systems, the paper proposes a taxonomy bringing together sustainable strategies for adopting green initiatives. Specifically, four strategies are identified: sustainability leaders, green practice adopters, information system adopters, and sustainability followers. These sustainable strategies highlight the different phases of the process of adoption of green initiatives.

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“…An RFID tracking system consists of three primary components -tags, readers and tracking databases (Attaran 2007). Tracking systems are based on checkpoints that register the movements of tracked items (Loebbecke and Powell 1998). The benefits of tracking are real-time coordination of material flows and individually tracked items, such as merge-in-transit; providing an effective link between physical reality and information systems, such as improved stock-taking and goods receipt transactions; and improved logistics management metrics and analyses (Stefansson and Tilanus 2001, Kärkkäinen and Holmström 2002, Ala-Risku et al 2003, Kärkkäinen et al 2004, Holmström et al 2011.…”

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RFID tracking in the book supply chain: the transition from postponed to speculative tagging

Hinkka

Holmström

Främling

2012

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

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This paper addresses the question regarding the point at which books should be tagged in the book supply chain, and where tracking could begin at different levels of adoption among retailers. Alternative solution designs are analysed by comparing the costs and benefits of the supply chain-wide radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging with RFID tracking solutions that cover only part of the supply chain. The analysis is based on modelling the RFID tag as a product feature and considering the tagging of books as a potential postponement decision. The cost estimates are based on activity-based costing and used to compare alternative solution designs for introducing RFID tracking in book retailing. Attaching RFID tags in the manufacturing phase is in many settings likely to be cheaper than downstream tagging. However, early tagging requires a threshold share of retailers to adopt RFID tracking in their store operations and be willing to bear the additional product costs.

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Competitive advantage from IT in logistics: The integrated transport tracking system

Cited by 43 publications

References 4 publications

Efficient tracking for short‐term multi‐company networks

Efficient tracking for short‐term multi‐company networks

Evaluating environmental sustainability strategies in freight transport and logistics industry

RFID tracking in the book supply chain: the transition from postponed to speculative tagging

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