In the paper we investigate what impact the deployment of wireless technologies can have on a supplier who manufactures a product and customizes it according to the individual wishes of his customers and how mobile solutions affect the supplier's inventory and transportation decisions. We derive several mathematical models for a special case when the supplier's representative visits each customer to approve his order and then sends all the adjustments of the order via his mobile device to the corporate back-end system. Only after modifications are saved the supplier can start the fulfillment of the customer's order while the agent can visit the next customer. The deployment of mobile solutions allows overlapping the process of visiting the customers and the production or transportation process what improves service quality and increases customer satisfaction.

Язык оригиналаанглийский
Название основной публикацииIn Memoriam Lilian Barros - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Logistics, ICIL 2005
РедакторыPetri Helo, Hector Cancela, Gerardo Rubino, Maria E. Urquhart
ИздательInternational Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics
Страницы245-254
Число страниц10
ISBN (электронное издание)9974002745
СостояниеОпубликовано - 1 янв 2005
Событие7th International Conference on Industrial Logistics: In Memoriam Lilian Barros, ICIL 2005 - Montevideo, Уругвай
Продолжительность: 14 фев 200518 фев 2005

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конференция7th International Conference on Industrial Logistics: In Memoriam Lilian Barros, ICIL 2005
Страна/TерриторияУругвай
ГородMontevideo
Период14/02/0518/02/05

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