BY PETER BRADLEY, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
technologyreview
THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER FOR BNSF
Railway imagines the day when the railroad might use
drones to inspect its vast network of rail bed and
bridges, with the unmanned aircraft sending data
back to the appropriate engineering and maintenance
locations.
An executive for Home Depot foresees a salesperson
designing a customer’s new kitchen on a tablet,
The CIO for trucker J.B. Hunt describes the evo-
lution of mobile technology that will eventually
lead to tagging every shipment and providing
tracking and delivery details in real time.
The executives described those visions dur-
ing a panel at the Council of Supply Chain
nication equipment for wireless networking.)
Industry experts believe that businesses with diverse
supply chains will benefit from the visibility and swift
communications offered by this technology. At the
same time the technology is taking on ever-greater
roles in the distribution center, it is also connecting the
DC to every part of the business supply chain.
Mobile technologies designed for DCs continue to improve, but the real action
is in the growing use of these devices at every link in the supply chain.
Mobile tech taking hold
across the supply chain
