On IoT Impact Of Supply Chain Visibility

Authors

Sung-Chi Chu, Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics The Chinese University of Hong KongFollow
Jerrel Leung, Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics The Chinese University of Hong KongFollow
Waiman Cheung, Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics The Chinese University of Hong KongFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Supply chain visibility (SCV) is much sought after in supply chain management, yet SCV remains an intangible topic with no tangible artifacts. The on-demand visibility view required of one decision maker, the seeing role, in a supply chain is quite different to any others – context specific, and managerial varied. Data available for the view must be collected and captured by the being seen role with on-target provenance. IoT technology becomes an integrative glue in supply chain integration fabrics, facilitating on-target design with manageable end-to-end visibility. In this paper, we propose a duality SCV framework to operationalize visibility. Contributions of the paper are firstly to bring current SCV discussions into focus to how IoT technology deployment can be formulated with on-target precision by the being seen, and secondly to extend to how on demand supply chain visibility to the seeing is enabled anywhere anytime.

Recommended Citation

Chu, Sung-Chi; Leung, Jerrel; and Cheung, Waiman, "On IoT Impact Of Supply Chain Visibility" (2015). ICEB 2015 Proceedings (Hong Kong, SAR China). 30.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/iceb2015/30