Transportation: Related White Papers
- 4 Steps Put Your Company On Consumers' “Favorites” List
- You know that personalizing the traveler’s buying experience is necessary to remain a competitive player – and is key to differentiating your business whether you’re a supplier, an agency or a player somewhere in between.
- Agile Airline Enterprise
- Today’s airline industry is undergoing more transformation than ever before. The combination of ongoing global economic events, “wired” passengers and growth of low-cost carriers makes this market ever more competitive on price, cost and yield.
- End-To-End Supply Chain Visibility, Security and Effectiveness
- With heightened concerns for cargo security and continuing pressures for achieving effective emergency response and profitability, the transport sector has been slow to respond as if in denial of lethal and competitive realities.
- Freight Logistics
- Although the importance of integrated freight logistics information is well recognized, the sector has been slow in effecting change related to its role in the supply chain. With heightened cargo security and continuing productivity requirements, freight logistics enterprises require an integrated information system to be competitive.
- Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
- Information Technology is vital to the Travel & Hospitality Industry as more and more people are traveling again for both business and pleasure. As the recovery continues, Travel & Hospitality companies are facing several key business issues including increased price transparency, commoditization, the demands for self service and raising costs of distribution. Many of these companies are looking to technology to solve these issues.
- Impact of IT on Airline Consolidation
- In this paper, we describe EDS' unique airline consolidation capabilities. We examine the challenges and operational requirements for a successful airline consolidation, as well as the opportunities it can provide.
- Integrated Freight Logistics
- Although the importance of integrated freight logistics information is well recognized, the sector has been slow in effecting change related to its role in the supply chain. With heightened cargo security and continuing productivity requirements, freight logistics enterprises require an integrated information system to be competitive. Information drives all the fundamental processes in a freight logistics enterprise. Managing this information and its related systems is the key to success.
- Route Planning, Tour Generation, Dispatching
- Fleet owners can increase efficiency by planning as far into the future as possible. Long-range forecasting will provide transportation capacity where and when it is needed. This forward-looking approach represents an evolution in private fleet business strategies.
- Service-Oriented Architecture In the Airline Industry
- Responding directly to economic and competitive pressures, companies in the airline industry are working to closely manage costs while at the same time improving operational performance and overall customer service.
- Service-Oriented Architecture In the Transportation Industry
- Companies in the transportation industry face a number of challenges, from globalization and lower-cost competitors to the need to be more nimble and responsive to market changes. By adopting an enterprise-class service-oriented architecture (SOA), transportation providers can lay the foundation needed to modernize existing software systems and introduce efficient new applications.
- Transportation: Logistics Service Providers PDF, 418K
- The transportation sector is challenged by globalization, consolidation and the need for faster, more visible and more flexible supply chains. In response, astute providers are now seeking a more agile transportation enterprise.