"It was a tsunami situation, sales slid back before it hit and subsided afterwards," said Andrew Starkey, head of e-logistics for IMRG.
"We know how to run a warehouse," said Harvey Rickles, the general manager of e-logistics for U.P.S. "We have inventory management systems and tracking systems already in place".
It is not clear if the term has wide acceptance and is written in many different ways (e.g. E-logistics, e-Logistics, eLogistics, Elogistics).
In this article, we take a look at the design of Web-based Services in the area of e-logistics.
e-log in the City of Klagenfurt; promising e-logistics solutions with 200 electric vehicles (goal) with focus on SMEs.
Collaborative control theory (CCT) and design principles are discussed, and key performance measures for emerging e-Production and e-Logistics systems are described and illustrated in this article.
Then, the achievable limits based on these measures in e-Production and e-Logistics are studied as a guide for designers of such systems and for future researchers aspiring to extend these limits.
E-logistics is defined to be the mechanism of automating the logistics processes and providing an integrated, end-to-end fulfillment and supply chain management service to the players of logistics processes.
The premise is that without effective e-Work, potential benefits of emerging and promising electronic work activities, such as virtual manufacturing, tele-robotic maintenance, automated inspection, e-supply and e-logistics cannot be materialized.
The first business e-Ventures was willing to discuss publicly is e-Logistics, which provides a service that will use UPS' existing global warehousing and transportation infrastructure to help small- and medium-sized dot-coms get to market faster and less expensively.
