While transport seems to be increasingly constrained in its mission to supply services which are continuous, costless and available in all directions, the telecommunications system seems to have no such constraints and to be developing ever more rapidly in terms of inter‐connectivity, falling costs and multi‐directionality. It would seem to be impossible to contemplate the future demand for…
Major changes have taken place in the application of information technology in retailing. Looks at the opportunities for improving use of data within the retail environment through modern technology in the early 1980s
The hatchcoverless container ship is an innovative design which improves cargo handling productivity. The paper develops a methodology for measuring the gains. the value which will accrue to the company over the life of the vessel.
It is unquestioned that the growth of the Internet is a significant phenomenon. Not only is there an exponential growth in the exchange of goods and services over the Internet, but the Internet has changed the way information can be accessed and used. This short paper posits that the Internet has made a fundamental change in the nature of the supply chain information within an organisation. It …
Modern manufacturing systems enable manufacturing management to plan, control and record manufacturing activities. However, manufacturers have been found to adopt practices and incur overheads to deride the benefits arising in other operational areas of their activities from the implementation of traditional systems. Current manufacturing practices are burdened by the legacy of these traditiona…
Major changes have taken place in the application of information technology in retailing. Looks at the opportunities for improving use of data within the retail environment through modern technology in the early 1980s.
This article addresses the issue of adoption timing in the diffusion of logistics technology. An event history analysis of warehouse automation technologies confirms the conceptual soundness of this relatively new procedure for predicting adoption of logistics technology. Implications for logistics technology research and managerial practice are presented.