LOGISTICS UPDATE: IMPROVING ASSET TRACKING CAPABILITY

Logistics is the process by which an organization manages the movement of goods and services at various points of the supply chain, and the information about those goods - location, routing, and contents - needs to be managed at the greatest possible level of detail. This article reviews global logistics, and the new regulations along with new technologies that are starting to come together to both protect devloped countries' supply chains and to improve cost efficiency by improving asset tracking capabilities. As security regulations and the upcoming Sunrise changes are going to require changes in logistics, the article recommends that companies seize the opportunity to offset some portion of those switching costs by investing in the upcoming technologies and realize the subsequent efficiency gains.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Association for Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy

  PMB 250
  3 Church Cir.
  Annapolis, MD  United States  21401-1933
• Authors:
  • Fuller, G
• Publication Date: 2003-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 385-403
• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy
  • Volume: 70
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Association for Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy
  • ISSN: 1078-5906
  • Serial URL: http://www.atlp.org/journal.html

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Freight transportation; Legislation; Logistics; Regulations; Supply chain management; Technological innovations; Tracking systems
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Law; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00964069
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 27 2003 12:00AM