Analyzing the potential of Future-Internet-based logistics control tower solutions in warehouses

Abstract

Lacking available information and missing integration of existing IT solutions between the planning level and the execution level are major reasons for many enterprises from the transportation and logistics failing to realize an optimal setup of process executions. Future-Internet-based logistics control towers promise a viable solution to such problems. With the help of such control towers, the problem is to be addressed. Using a real-world example of a process in a company's warehouse, the present paper presents the potential facilitated by Future-Internet-based logistics control towers by evaluating the usefulness of the solution with regard to the potential of a more resource-efficient configuration of business processes.