Using mobile service for supply chain management : a survey and challenges
This is a survey paper that identifies challenges for industry practitioners, making it incremental as it synthesizes existing knowledge without novel findings.
The paper reviews mobile web services for supply chain management, highlighting their potential to provide personalized, anytime-anywhere services to actors in the industry, but does not present new experimental results or concrete numbers.
Efficient supply chain management calls for robust analytical and optimal models to automate its process. Therefore, information technology is an essential ingredient that integrates these tools in supply chain. With the emergence of wireless, the high technologies and the reliability of mobile devices, mobile web services draw a promising horizon facing economic challenges. They offer new personalized services to each actor in the supply chain on their mobile devices at anytime and anywhere. This paper presents a literature review of mobile web service implemented on the industry context based on the supply chain management approach. First, a large definition of mobile web service and some proposal architecture are exposed. Then the paper discuss some generic related work on mobile web service focusing on supply chain management. Finally some challenges on m-service oriented supply chain management are proposed.