Abstract
The logistics profession has undergone severe changes over the last few decades, replacing muscle power with brain power. The virtual aspect of logistics has become equally important to the physical realm of transportation and warehousing. Supply Chain Management (SCM) deals with getting the right stuff to the right people at the right time in the right amount. To accomplish this task there are a number of more or less integrated logistics software application. Demand forecasting models based on historical data from data marts and data warehouses with built in seasonality and pricing models. Load planning software to appropriately palletize, containerize and load trucks and vessels. Route planning software with real time traffic and weather updates to reduce time and fuel costs. Electronic documents to accompany the shipment from purchase order, letter of credit to customs clearing and back-haul charges. Logistics software has many aspects and may be viewed differently from a software developer and user perspective. This study compares the perception of logistics software by management information systems (MIS) and logistics management students (Logistics) in Thailand. Some of the aspects include: user friendliness, ease of use, features and benefits, technical limitations.
Highlights
Logistics has changed over the years and moved from transportation and warehousing to integrated logistics solutions which cover the entire life cycle of the supply chain and start with demand forecast and close with reverse logistics and recycling of the good created on the farm or factory which were received by the personal or industrial end users
In the literature review we looked at three main bodies of literature: management information system literature, logistics literature and logistics software literature
We looked at the various categories of logistics software, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Global Positioning System (GPS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for applied and theoretical research (Baumgartner, 2001)
Summary
Logistics has changed over the years and moved from transportation and warehousing to integrated logistics solutions which cover the entire life cycle of the supply chain and start with demand forecast and close with reverse logistics and recycling of the good created on the farm or factory which were received by the personal or industrial end users. Having said that it is clear that today’s logistics professional have to have a keen awareness of logistics information system can do and how to handle them These information systems have to be created by someone. The internet changed all that and local area networks both hard wired and wireless connected the office computers to each other’s and the rest of the world. This allowed for web-enabled databases and applications which could be accessed from around the world on local servers. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is replacing barcodes and allows the tracking of individual items, cartons, pallets, containers and movement vehicles
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