Management

A Mid-Market Supply Chain Manager’s Roadmap to Mobile

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Mobility is a hot topic these days. Regardless of industry or profession, there is a mobile application or ecosystem in development to serve it. The supply chain is no different. In fact, given its very manual and distributed nature, it is better suited to mobile application deployment than most business processes. For distribution and fulfillment services, where most of the activities take place away from the desktop, the extension of business processes to mobile applications just makes sense. Most CEOs today are looking to the supply chain for competitive advantage (think Amazon’s drones), so the time is right for supply chain managers to begin the process of introducing mobile into their processes.1 We say ‘begin’ because, regardless of the hype, mobile supply chain management (mSCM) is still in its infancy. This may be hard to believe given the heavy use of mobile data collection devices like hand-held scanners in SCM activities but, as our own research has shown, inside a business’ four walls almost 30 percent of supply chain managers use no mobility at all. Outside their four walls, the numbers are even lower with just 27 percent enabling some transactions via tablets and smartphones. And 36 percent enable no mobile transactions at all.

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A Mid-Market Supply Chain Manager’s Roadmap to Mobile

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: ., 2015

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