Logistics Information Management: Volume 6 Issue 5

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Using Computers for Management Decisions

Bruce Curry

Examines the ways in which computers can be used to assist inmanagement decision making, emphasizing, above all, the practicalaspects. Begins with the provision of management…

British Standards – Bureaucracy or Benefit?

Michael Sanderson

To understand better the nature of standards one must remove thebureaucratic details and focus on the benefits: improvingcompetitiveness, protecting the consumers, and society′s…

Implications of Developments in Electronic Trading: A Cross‐industry View

Peter Bonfield

The impact of IT extends further than simply increasingefficiencies. Five areas of impact are provided with the specificimplications for ICL: business structure; productivity;…

Justifying Investment in Technology

David Triggs

How investments in technology are justified will often determinewhether they are made. It is therefore important for managers tounderstand the process of decision making and…

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Applications Management in Logistics

David Walker

Research commissioned by a major UK open systems supplier, Hoskynsplc, reveals that cost containment is the key issue driving ITdepartments, not management performance or customer…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/EUM0000000001434. When citing the…

Winning Orders by Better Logistics

Hal Mather

Argues that yesterday′s ways of gaining competitive advantage nolonger work and that tomorrow′s opportunity lies in profitabilitydelighting customers – giving them something more…

The Paperless Office of the Future

Thomas F. Connolly, Brian H. Kleiner

To meet the needs of the environment and to improve competitivenessthrough lower costs and greater responsiveness, the paperless office isonce again being anticipated. While the…

ISSN:

0957-6053

Renamed from:

Logistics World

Online date, start – end:

1989 – 2003

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited