The past, present, and future of supply-chain automation.

We trace 20th-Century developments in the area of supply-chain automation and discuss the history of automation from the viewpoints of material-flow, information-flow, supervision and control, and relationship automation and identify future directions. The main message is that it is important to mak...

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Published in:IEEE Robotics and automation magazine 9, 2 (2002).
Main Author: Viswanadham, N.
Format: Article
Language:English
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