Wearable Computers

Paper Summary:

The paper relates that in the manufacturing industry sectors, the use of wearable computers to improve logistics at the services level and at distribution center level shows significant potential. The paper states that starting at the services level, specifically in the area of air and sea cargo, the use of wearable computers for scanning both bar codes and getting an accurate reading of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is critical. The paper details the areas of the use of wearable computers in all industries, as there is always the need to keep customers informed of the state of their orders.

From the Paper:

"This real-time data and analysis aspect of wearable computers also has the potential to revolutionize Distribution Center (DC) operations in the retailing industry specifically as well. The role of the DC is to act as a buffer between high levels of customer demand on the retail or store front side versus suppliers on the other. Wearable computers, equipped with WiFi access, would be able to define in real time what mixed-product pallets would need to be sent to which store. These mixed-product pallets could be create literally on the fly from inbound orders received by warehouse operators fulfilling orders throughout the DC. Instead of having orders queue up and print in the DC office, those fulfillment team members in a DC could get the orders in real time, create the mixed-product pallets, and get them out literally within hours instead of days. This would trim over a week, cumulatively, off the time it would take for a retail outlet to get an order fulfilled."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aimi. AMR Research (2005, October 25). Retailers save Money By Controlling In-Bound Logistics. (Alert). Boston, MA. Greg Aimi, Pg. 1
• Weston and Garf. (2005).AMR Research. (2005, November 8). Wal-Mart and UPS: Tales in Superior Supply Chains . Randy Weston and Rob Garf. (Assessment of Fall Supply Chain Conference). Boston, MA. Pg. 1.

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