Logistics Information Management: Volume 7 Issue 4
Table of contents
Relative Information Technology Index (RITI):: IT Performance, Company Control and Governance
Zeinab A. KarakeDevelops a new objective measure of the levels of investment/performancein information technology (IT) by companies from different industries.This measure, called the Relative…
Shaping Up for the Information Revolution
David SheldonFor ten years, since Vice‐President Al Gore coined the phrase “theinformation highway”, people have been predicting the eventual arrival ofan information age in which all the…
The Use of IT in Freight Forwarding in the UK
Glenn Hardaker, Robert R. Trick, Aishah A. SabkiA survey undertaken in May 1993 analysed UK companies of various sizes,i.e. small, medium and large, in order to have a representative sampleof freight forwarding companies. The…
Knowledge‐based Manufacturing:: The Key to Recovery
Tim FoxlowNew knowledge‐based manufacturing software, incorporating artificialintelligence techniques, offers benefits to companies whose products arecomplex, highly varied or…
Launching Emerging Technologies to Create New Markets: Identifying Industrial Buyers
Barbara Samuel Loftus, Patricia W. MeyersExamines potential industrial buyers of a product based on emergingtechnology, PACS (picture archiving and communication system), a newimage management system which stores and…
EDI – Changing Business Practice
Linda RobsonThe need to hasten the exchange of business information over the yearshas resulted in ever‐changing business practices culminating in theadvent of electronic data interchange…
Design and Use of Digitized Road Networks in International Road Transport
Peter G. EiblRoad transport information systems (RTIS) and their underlying digitizedroad networks, have recently undergone a major enhancement with theextension from national to international…
New Trends in the Supply Environment
Alberto De Toni, Guido Nassimbeni, Stefano TonchiaPresent‐day competitiveness has brought about a marked evolution insupply management, imposing on firms an increasingly close interactionwith suppliers. The achievement of…