An eco-solution for track & trace of goods and third party logistics

Author

Roos, Kaspar ; West, Martin ; Chang, Elizabeth ; Armstrong, Brendan

Author_Institution

Fac. of Bus., Twente Univ., Enschede, Netherlands

fYear

2005

fDate

10-12 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

402

Lastpage

405

Abstract

This paper presents a new economic cost-effective solution known as the Web and telephony based method for tracking and tracing of goods and small and medium sized third party logistic providers. Considering that these companies usually operate on very flat margins, a comparison is made of the available track and trace technologies like GPS, mobile phone approximated GPS and Java based cell tracking in terms of costs, operating risks, and other evaluation criteria.

Keywords

goods dispatch data processing; logistics data processing; small-to-medium enterprises; Java based cell tracking; Web based method; economic cost-effective solution; mobile phone approximated GPS; small-medium sized company; telephony based method; third party logistics; Australia; Companies; Costs; Global Positioning System; Inventory management; Java; Logistics; Mobile handsets; Telephony; Tracking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Informatics, 2005. INDIN '05. 2005 3rd IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9094-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDIN.2005.1560410

Filename

1560410

Link To Document

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