Streamlining Grain Supply Chains of India: Cloud Computing and Distributed Hubbing for Wholesale-Retail Logistics

摘要：

Spoilage rates in India’s grain supply chains have been estimated to be 25％ to 30％. The price “mark-up rates, i.e., service charges over crop costs, have been estimated to be over 240％, with a whopping 210％ incurred by wholesalers, retailers and the intermediaries. The two rates in developed nations are approximately 3％ and between 50％ and 100％. This paper focuses on supply-chain portion from wholesalers through consumers and proposes service, information technology and logistics concepts to help reduce the two rates. In particular, cloud computing may help India bring the full benefit of IT to their small merchants through leap-frogging.

作者: H.-S. Jacob Tsao Shrikant Parikh Anindya S. Ghosh Ritesh Pal Madhura Ranalkar Hanoz Tarapore Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan

作者单位: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at San Jose State University, San Jose, California, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics,and Informations(2010 IEEE 服务、运筹、物流与信息化国际研讨会)

会议地点: 青岛

会议语种:英文

页码: 252-257

在线出版日期: 2010-07-15（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）