Innovations in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Technologies for Dynamic Economies

Innovations in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Technologies for Dynamic Economies

Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 434

ISBN13: 9781466602670|ISBN10: 1466602678|EISBN13: 9781466602687

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0267-0

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As time and distance become conquerable in a global economy, understanding the future of supply chain management is the process of understanding how the world interacts.

Innovations in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Technologies for Dynamic Economies disseminates supply chain management and applied logistic theories, technology development, innovation, and transformation in various economic sectors upon current, advancing technological opportunities and market imperatives. In a world where efficiency is crucial, applied research and developments in logistics and supply chain management included in this volume is paramount.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

A Non-Invasive Software Architecture Style for RFID Data Provisioning (pages 1-15)

Ying Liu, Tao Lin, Sudha Ram, Xuemei Su

Integrating real-time RFID data into autonomous and heterogeneous information systems across the business value chain presents a number of challenges. At an abstract architecture level, this paper identifies important requirements...

Chapter 2

Facilitating Consumer Acceptance of RFID and Related Ubiquitous Technologies (pages 16-27)

David M. Wasieleski, William E. Spangler, Mordechai Gal-Or

The issue of consumer acceptance in the implementation of RFID and related ubiquitous technologies, driven primarily by privacy concerns, is a complex social problem involving consumers, companies, advocacy groups and government...

Chapter 3

Mining RFID Behavior Data using Unsupervised Learning (pages 28-48)

Guénaël Cabanes, Younès Bennani, Dominique Fresneau

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is an advanced tracking technology that can be used to study the spatial organization of individual’s spatio-temporal activity. The aim of this work is firstly to build a new RFID-based...

Chapter 4

Testing the Potential of RFID to Increase Supply-Chain Agility and to Mitigate the Bullwhip Effect (pages 49-68)

Anthony Vance, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Jeffrey A. Ogden

This study examines the potential of RFID technology to increase the agility of supply-chain e-commerce systems by mitigating the bullwhip effect. The bullwhip effect is a supply-chain phenomenon that reveals a lack of business...

Chapter 5

QTDFS-ALOHA: A Hybrid Collision Resolution Protocol for Dense RFID Tag Environment (pages 69-82)

Xinqing Yan, Zhouping Yin

Proposed protocols work clumsily in resolving the collisions occurred in dense RFID tag environment. QTDFS-ALOHA, a hybrid protocol which combines the query tree protocol and the dynamic frame slot ALOHA protocol, is proposed. In...

Chapter 6

Analysis of the Cargo Service Dynamics in East Asian Airports (pages 83-104)

Joyce M.W Low, Loon Ching Tang, Xue-Ming Yuan

This paper examines the effects of primary production and key economic factors on air cargo traffic between 1999 and 2005 in the East Asian airport industry through econometric and clustering analyses. This paper’s findings show that...

Chapter 7

How to Market OR/MS Decision Support (pages 105-119)

Masayuki Ueda

This research examines what decision makers must do to utilize OR/MS decision support. The author investigates OR/MS decision support from a new viewpoint of service. Firstly, OR/MS decision support provides information to aid in...

Chapter 8

Perceived Risk Management: Applying the TEID Model to the Traveler Service Chain (pages 120-136)

Magali Dubosson, Emmanuel Fragnière

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the theoretical work on service-perceived risk management of knowledge-based services (i.e., intangible and heterogeneous) and experience-based services and to suggest a framework that...

Chapter 9

Analyzing Requirements and Approaches for Sourcing Software Based Services (pages 137-147)

G.R. Gangadharan, Erwin Fielt

Increasingly, software is no longer developed as a single system, but rather as a smart combination of so-called software services. Each of these provides an independent, specific and relatively small piece of functionality, which is...

Chapter 10

An Activity Theory Analysis of RFID in Hospitals (pages 148-166)

Daniel E. O’Leary

Although there have been many proposed applications of RFID in hospitals, few of those applications have received sustained use in hospitals, to-date. As a result, this paper investigates the use of RFID in hospitals in an emerging...

Chapter 11

Collaboration in Cyber Transportation Logistics: Paradigms and Technologies (pages 167-182)

Albert K. Toh, Yupo Chan

Although the topic of supply chain (SC) and logistics (L) has been discussed in many fora, placing it in today’s cyber (e) space is still a subject that receives little attention. This paper analyzes the role of e-SC/L in the context...

Chapter 12

Managing Enterprise Service Level Agreement (pages 183-207)

Yang Li

The continued trend of globalization and technology improvement like the internet and transportation have spawned an increasing number of complex service chains that span across local, regional and national boundaries. Service level...

Chapter 13

Hospital Supplier Relationship Management: Cooperation, Coordination, and Communication (pages 208-226)

Peter Rohner

The structural transformation of modern societies (e.g., aging of population, mobility) as well as continuously increasing market dynamics (e.g., mergers, technological advancement) induces health care organizations to reduce their...

Chapter 14

Research on Innovation Mechanism and Model of Logistics Enterprise: A Chinese Perspective (pages 227-252)

Zhang Mu, Li Wenli, Luo Jing, Ye Xiang, Ren Congying, Wu Chengjuan

As a new field in the service industry, logistics is growing rapidly and is regarded as a fundamental industry in a national economy. Its development is an important symbol of a country’s modernization and national strength. It also...

Chapter 15

Managing Customer-Centric Information: The Challenges of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Deployment in Service Environments (pages 253-271)

Martin R. Fellenz, Mairead Brady

Despite many years of business-orientated information and communication technology (ICT) deployment, contemporary organisations continue to struggle with customer-centric implementation of new technologies that are profitable and...

Chapter 16

A Game Theoretic Approach for Sensitive Information Sharing in Supply Chain (pages 272-282)

Xiaofeng Zhang, William K. Cheung, ZongWei Luo, Frank Tong

With the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, information sharing among participants in a supply chain is greatly facilitated, raising privacy concerns on sharing sensitive information. Balancing the...

Chapter 17

Evaluating the Use of Electronic Door Seals (E-Seals) on Shipping Containers (pages 283-299)

Edward McCormack, Mark Jensen, Al Hovde

In this study, electronic door seals (E-seals) are tested on shipping containers that traveled through ports, over borders, and on roadways. The findings show that using RFID devices increases supply chain efficiency and improves the...

Chapter 18

Wireless Sensor Network Technology and Its Application Potentials for Service Innovation in Supply Chain Management (pages 300-323)

Gong Li, Jing Shi

The growing awareness of the strategic value of service along with higher product performance expectations has directed many industries to adopt service centric competitive strategies in managing their supply chains. Service...

Chapter 19

Business Service Scheduling (pages 324-335)

Jürgen Dorn

The management and predictive planning of the processes to create business services is more difficult than the planning of production processes, because services cannot be produced in stock and customers are involved in their...

Chapter 20

Streamlining Knowledge Map Construction for an Online Auction House Using Automatic Term Filtering (pages 336-353)

Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan

Organizations are building automated technical support software that can help both consumers and field support engineers with problem resolution. The goal of the automated technical support system is reducing operational cost and...

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