In Real Time: Managing the New Supply Chain
In Real Time: Managing the New Supply Chain
Mobile services used in unstable environments: design requirements based on three case studies
ICEC '06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Electronic commerce: The new e-commerce: innovations for conquering current barriers, obstacles and limitations to conducting successful business on the internet
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A lot has been done regarding the deployment of e-commerce and logistics solutions in rural areas, but despite of these efforts one still encounters the ineffectual and unsustainable application of ICT-enabled logistics services. The developers of such services for rural areas lack readily available supportive tools and methodologies. This paper identifies the need for a support environment for the development of ICT-enabled logistics services in rural areas based on the concept of a so-called design studio, which uses simulation models and collaboration technology to facilitate the design. The paper describes the logistics situation in rural South Africa, analyses the current ideas to enable this with ICT, and provides the requirements for such a studio. The concepts presented in this paper and the accompanying discussions are part of findings of the diagnostic stage of inductive case studies, and will be built further in the next steps of the research.