Since the end of the tech bubble and 9/11, the number of breakthrough technologies supporting value chain management has increased significantly, especially those involving sensors and wireless. When these trends are combined with the monumental shift in global economies, the result is a new set of disciplines for global business leaders.
Demonstrates How Connectivity Streamlines Company Processes
This authoritative volume illustrates how companies, through the implementation of web-based and secure tracking technologies such as RFID and wireless sensors, can:
- Reduce costs
- Increase sales through connectivity to customers and markets
- Enable greater use of fixed assets
- Accelerate working capital turns
- Enable acquisitions
Examines Impact of Tracking Technology on Global Shipping, Pharmaceutical, and Agribusiness Industries
Using Technology to Transform the Value Chain provides specific reviews of existing technologies and supply chain activities and places special emphasis on the needed architecture for the accelerating extended supply chain. In addition to evaluating the costs and benefits of satellite communications, it also takes an in-depth look at how technology is transforming agribusiness by allowing for more efficient tracking of all livestock. The steps outlined in this seminal work help companies secure their competitive edge and produce groundbreaking change in the way the conduct business.
- ISBN10 6611993673
- ISBN13 9786611993672
- Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 22 December 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 21 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint CRC Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 156
- Language English