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Freightlogisticsservicesforruraleconomies:
Userneedsandfuturechallenges
AngelaCristinaMarqui
MartinJ.Kollingbaum
LiangChen
TimothyJ.Norman
PeterEdwards
JohnD.Nelson
dot.ruralRCUKDigitalEconomyResearchHub,UniversityofAberdeen
Abstract:
Thepurposeofthispaperistoidentifyrequirementsforlogisticsandtransportservicesofsmallandmicroruralbusinesses.Thispaperexplorestheempiricalfindingsoftwocasestudiesofsmallruralbusiness.Thesefindingssuggestthatbusinessesareconfinedtosmall-scalecommercialactivitiesduetoabasiccommunicationandinformationsharingproblem.Wearguethat,inorderfbrbusinessestooperateonalargerscale,appropriatesupportforthelogisticsrequirementsofruralbusinessescallsfbrintelligentsoftwareplatformsthatprovidesolutionstothisbasicproblem.WesuggesttheuseofElectronicLogisticsMarkets(ELM)fbrchoosingservicesandinfrastructurestomanagetrans-shipmentsinanefficientmannerandtoallowserviceproviderstooffercertifiedservices,viatrustedthirdparties.
Keywords:
Logisticsandtransportsolutions,freighttransport,digitaleconomies,intelligentagents.
1Introduction
Today9sruraleconomyisacomplexmixofcommercialactivities,wherefoodproductioncoexistswithtourism,recreation,andvariouspublicandprivateservices(HMGovernment,2002).Asignificantpotentialfbrgrowthhasbeenrecognisedfbrtheruraleconomy(LoweandWard,2007)andwiththeadventofthedigitaleconomy,onlinesalessystemsandinformationplatformsbecomeenablers,inparticular,forsmallandmicroruralbusinessestoexpandtheircommercialactivitiesbeyondlocalandregionalareas.
Althoughsellingproductstoconsumerswithoutgeographicalboundariesisnowareality,thereisgenerallynostraightforwardstrategyfbrhowbusinesseshandlethelogisticsofdistributingtheirproductsglobally.We,thereforeconductedadetailedstudyintohowsmallruralbusinessesoperateand,inparticular,howthedeliveryofgoodstocustomersisplannedandmanaged.Weidentifiedthephenomenonofsmallbusinessesestablishinglocalised“ecosystems”-acompanyproducinggoodsisworkingtogetherwithoneortwotrustedtransportserviceprovidersfbrdeliveryand,often,areservingonlyasmallclientelewiththeirproducts.
Thepurposeofthispaperistoidentifylogisticsandtransportneedsofmicroandsmallruralbusinesses.Thepaperalsoseekstoexaminetheuseofexistinglogisticssolutionsandtheirapplicabilityinaruralbusinesscontext.Ultimately,weaimtoelicitthefeaturesrequiredofasoftwaresolutionthataidsbusinesseswithintheruraleconomytoovercomelogisticsissues.
Withbusinessesdeliveringtowidertargetmarkets,thereisalsonowagrowingneedtoconsidertheenvironmentalimpactoftheirlogisticsoperations.AnexampleofhowtechnologycanhelpintacklingsuchissuesistheMITm-Logisticsinitiative(MITCenterfbrTransportationLogistics,2010),whichpresentsamobilesoftwareplatformthatcanenabledistributionofproductstolow-incomemarketswithsubstantiallyloweroverhead.Theremainderofthispaperwilloutlinethetheoreticalbackgroundtotheempiricalinvestigation;addressthemethodfbrdatacollection;showtheresultsofthefieldworkfollowedbydiscussionspointingoutkeyrequirementsfbrlogisticsservicesfacedbysmallruralbusiness.Finally,futurechallengesandconclusionsprovidesomeinsightsintothekindsofdigitaltechnologiesthatcouldbeappliedinordertoestablishsolutionstotheserequirements.
2LogisticsCustomerService
"Customerserviceisaprocessforprovidingsignificantvalue-addedbenefitstothesupplychaininacosteffectiveway”(LaLondeetal.,1988,p.5).Fromalogisticperspective,customerserviceistheresult(output)ofalllogisticsactivitiesorprocesseswithinthesupplychain(logisticssystem)(Ballou,2004,Lambert,StockandEllram,1998).Overtheyears,themeaningofcustomerservicepresentedherehasbeenidentifiedindifferentways,includinglogisticscustomerservice(HuiskonenandPirttila,1998)andphysicaldistributionservice(Mentzerelal.,1989).InthisstudyweusethetermLogisticsCustomerService(LCS).
LaLondeandZinszer'swork(1976)isamongthoseseminalinthedisciplineoflogistics.TheyclassifytheelementsofLCSintermsofpre-transactionelements,transactionelements,andpost-transactionelements(Figure1).Thisclassificationwasusedasthebasisforthedevelopmentofourstudy.Thisperspectiveofthelogisticsystemisparticularlyusefulinthisresearchforgroupingintoonesinglemodelthekeyelementsofinterest.Otherframeworksbasedontheprincipleofintegratedbusinessprocessesacrossthesupplychain(Lambert,CooperandPagh,1998)wouldaddcomplexitythatisnotrelevanttosmallruralbusiness,even
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