Logistics

A significant part of traffic in urban areas nowadays is transport traffic within the „last mile“, i.e. vehicles on delivery or pickup tours transporting goods from or to customers. This article describes new IT services, which on the one hand help optimizing this logistics traffic and on the other hand make the deliveries more customer-friendly.

After many years of development, positioning systems have reached a high level of accuracy and complexity. Many new applications and services are now possible. Location Based Services are one of the new buzzwords. But how can these new opportunities be used effectively? This article will show the basics of the localisation and system design. Finally, some examples point out the added value position information provides.

The article introduces the use of business rules technology for SCEM applications, outlining both the benefits and a possible architecture. Furthermore, a brief introduction to the business rules suite ILOG JRules and a description of its usage at the SCEM vendor Tilion Inc. is given.