Using Technology to Transform the Value Chain
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.

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Using Technology to Transform the Value Chain
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.

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Using Technology to Transform the Value Chain

Using Technology to Transform the Value Chain

by Fred Kuglin, Ray Hood
Using Technology to Transform the Value Chain

Using Technology to Transform the Value Chain

by Fred Kuglin, Ray Hood

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781420047592
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/22/2008
Pages: 140
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.60(d)

Table of Contents

RFID – Cure for Cancer, or Supplier Curse? Wireless Sensors – The Value-Based World Beyond RFID. From Farm to Fork - How Technology is Transforming AgriBusiness. The Media Supply Chain Key Word: Digital. From Sea to Shining Sea: The Changing World of Ocean Container Shipping. The Warehouse: Obsolete? Or a Critical Link in the Modern Supply Chain? Pharmagistics. The Near Future for Technology in Supply Chain Management.

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