Improving Performance of Rural Supply Chains Using Mobile Phones

Author(s):  
Arun Ramanujapuram ◽  
Anup Akkihal
Keyword(s):  
Management ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Szymczak

Summary Using Smartphones in Supply Chains Mobile phones have settled in our lives for good. The technological development made them actual miniature computers with significant computing capability and many diverse functions, which earned them the name „smartphones”. They create new possibilities of application, also in business environments. As it turns out, already today smartphones are the most popular mobile devices used in supply chain management. Surely, as versatile and multi-functional devices, they will gain even larger share in the implementation of business tasks in the foreseeable future. The purpose of this paper is to describe the potential areas in supply chain management smartphones can be used in, compared to the current trends. The specified examples of application will be used to draw conclusions regarding the expected effects of use and most promising areas of implementation. These deliberations will be put in a wider social context, which is inevitable if we are to treat the consumer as the last link in the supply chain which, owing to the reported demand, is becoming a causative factor in all flows of goods.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
M. Ramasubramaniam ◽  
N. Chandrasekaran

Abstract From being a buzzword, E-business has become a norm in today’s globalized economy. The advent of computers and mobile phones have acted as effective enablers in information sharing and improving efficiencies while allowing companies to cut costs. (Brown, 2004) defines e-business as “the use of inter-organisational electronic networks to transact, process and collaborate in business markets - it incorporates e-commerce”. Today, success of an e-business fundamentally relies on effective e-commerce implementation (Chiu, 2014). While the strong growth of e-business is a welcome sign, this growth along with almost infinite propositions that are under offer for customers also brings along with it undue pressure on supporting logistics functions (Agatz, Fleischmann, & Van Nunen, 2008), (Auramo, 2002). This has led the e-business supply chains to shift their focus from cost efficiencies and to embrace responsiveness.


2021 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 102888
Author(s):  
Han Zou ◽  
Maged M. Dessouky ◽  
Shichun Hu

Pathology ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-270
Author(s):  
Clive G. Harper ◽  
Victor K. Lee
Keyword(s):  

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Montag ◽  
Konrad Błaszkiewicz ◽  
Bernd Lachmann ◽  
Ionut Andone ◽  
Rayna Sariyska ◽  
...  

In the present study we link self-report-data on personality to behavior recorded on the mobile phone. This new approach from Psychoinformatics collects data from humans in everyday life. It demonstrates the fruitful collaboration between psychology and computer science, combining Big Data with psychological variables. Given the large number of variables, which can be tracked on a smartphone, the present study focuses on the traditional features of mobile phones – namely incoming and outgoing calls and SMS. We observed N = 49 participants with respect to the telephone/SMS usage via our custom developed mobile phone app for 5 weeks. Extraversion was positively associated with nearly all related telephone call variables. In particular, Extraverts directly reach out to their social network via voice calls.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Walsh ◽  
Tom Power
Keyword(s):  

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Preziosa ◽  
Marta Bassi ◽  
Daniela Villani ◽  
Andrea Gaggioli ◽  
Giuseppe Riva

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