Developing a smartphone app to enhance Oxfam's supply chain visibility
This paper reports on the development of a smartphone app designed to give drivers and managers in a charity organization greater visibility of transport, donation bank and shop stock in time and space. Trials of the app with samples of drivers and shop managers across three counties in the UK showed that users' understanding of vehicle activity and how time was utilized in the business was enhanced. The app also informed their decision-making, aided some collaboration and helped in their understanding of donation bank and shop performance, with one region altering their collection schedules. The quality of 3G signal was an issue in certain areas which impeded performance and the rules by which the messaging platform should be used in such a tool need careful consideration.
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- Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
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Authors:
- Cherrett, Tom
- Shingleton, Duncan
- Norton, Ben
- McLeod, Fraser
- Forey, Camille
- Dickinson, Janet
- Winstanley, Chris
- Davies, Nigel
- Speed, Chris
- Norgate, Sarah
- Publication Date: 2015-3
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Pagination: pp 155-167
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Serial:
- International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
- Volume: 18
- Issue Number: 2
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISSN: 1367-5567
- EISSN: 1469-848X
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjol20/current
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Decision making; Logistics; Nonprofit corporations; Smartphones; Supply chain management; Web applications
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01564635
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 26 2015 4:12PM