- Section 2.7: Further Industrial
Applications
DRIVE - Drug in Virtual Enterprise
A. Sanna, D. Cipriano, S. Buso, M. Wilikens
SaFES, an Egalitarian Catalyst for Change
Harnessing Ubiquitous Web Technology, Offering Transparency for
all Stakeholders in Food Quality
J.H. Wademan
Small Retailing of Fresh Food in the
e-Business Era
A. Marqués-Moreno, F. Carvajal Rodrigo, K.G. Zografos
Redesigning the Traditional Retail Value
Chain: MyGROCER Innovative Business and Technology Framework
G. Lekakos, P. Kourouthanassis, J.O. Tuominen
e-Flora: e-Commerce and the Agricultural
SMEs
C. Tsagari and A. Garbi
DRIVE
- Drug in Virtual Enterprise
Alberto SANNA(1), Danielle
CIPRIANO)1), Sandro BUSO(2), Marc WILIKENS(3)
(1) Istituto Scientifico Universitd San Raffaele
(2) AtosOrigin Integration
(3) The Joint Research Centre, EU
In the dynamic healthcare environment,
laboratory diagnostics and pharmaceutical therapy are the medical
events with the highest occurrence rate, for both in-Patients
and outpatients. The convergence of these disciplines in a unique
info-knowledge infrastructure is the unique intervention point
with the highest impact potential in the healthcare domain, particularly
within the hospital environment in which the highest frequency
of such events occurs. The DRIVE project aims at providing a
fully integrated info-knowledge environment on top of an integrated
product supply chain (based on the concepts and business models
of the e-Commerce) infrastructure and a safe and secure data
infrastructure (based on the concepts of trust and dependability)
among stakeholders to drive the laboratory diagnostics and the
pharmaceutical therapy (and further medical disciplines) convergence
within the hospital environment.
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SaFES,
an Egalitarian Catalyst for Change Harnessing Ubiquitous Web
Technology, Offering Transparency for all Stakeholders in Food
Quality
Janet H. WADEMAN
van Helsing Limited, 12, Meyricks, Coed Eva, Cwmbran, Gwent,
NP44 6TU, United Kingdom
SaFES is an on-line software
tool used in improving the quality of processes within food manufacturing
plants. This trial introduces SaFES into the cooked meats and
poultry processing industries. Food producers need to use HACCP
to improve the microbiological quality of their products thereby
reducing food-borne illness. Currently, most HACCPs being paper-based
are costly both to implement and maintain. SaFES is designed
to reduce these costs. In addition, SaFES facilitates remote
monitoring via Internet technology providing easy accessibility
of audit data for all members of the supply chain. During the
trial SaFES was populated remotely with site-specific J3ACCPs
then automatic monitoring systems were installed at the two user
sites. Parallel trials between existing systems and the SaFES
implementations at both sites generate robust comparative performance
data.
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Small
Retailing of Fresh Food in the e-Business Era
Antonio MARQUES-MORENO(1),
Federico CARVAJAL RODRIGO(1) and Kostantinos G.
ZOGRAFOS(2)
(1) Avenida Tres Forques, 147, 46016-Valencia, Spain
(2) Athens University of Economics and Business, Management Science
and Marketing Dept., TRANsportation Systems and LOGistics Laboratory
Patission 76, Athens 10434, Greece
This paper highlights research
and development activity carried out by DISTRICT project N"
IST-11247. This paper describes the development of an integrated
system for supporting small retailing operations in the fresh
food sector and the implications of introducing electronic commerce
technologies for B2B and B2C transactions. The paper addresses
issues related to the introduction of advanced information/communication
technologies in traditional SMEs in the sector of food retailing
and the emerging business models in the sector. Distinct characteristics
of the proposed DISTRICT system include the: i) development of
a user profiler ii) ability to provide demand management support
and iii) coverage of all logistical operations Tom order processing
to final delivery of goods for the entire supply chain.
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Redesigning
the Traditional Retail Value Chain: MyGROCER Innovative Business
and Technology Framework
Georgios LEKAKOS(1),
Panos KOUROUTHANASSIS(1), Juha O. TUOMINEN(2)
(1) eLTRUN, The e-Business Centre, Department of Management Science
& Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business,
47 Evelpidon & Lefkados Str., 11362 Athens, Greece,
(2) NOKIA Research Center, Itamenenkatu 11-13, FIN-00180, Helsinki,
Finland,
As On-line Commerce evolves,
services become increasingly sophisticated, cost efficient and
consumer-oriented in order to add value to current business practices.
In this framework, vendors in the grocery retail industry have
the opportunity to provide innovative services to their customers
by using state-of-the-art technologies. In this paper we present
a business and technology framework for the retail sector that
exploits the opportunities that emerging telecommunication and
mobile commerce technologies (e.g. WAP, WML, GPRS, UMTS) and
automatic product identification technologies (Rf-Id) offer,
to enable an efficient home replenishment schema, enhance the
quality of service offered by retailers and add value to the
consumer. The emerging business model is the basis of the MyGROCER
IST project (Mobile shopping of electronically referenced grocery
products), addressing these issues through an analytical research
framework.
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e-Flora:
e-Commerce and the Agricultural SMEs
Christina Tsagari and
Anastasia Garbi
Exodus S.A., 6-10 Farantaton Street, 11527 Athens, Greece
The e-flora trial focuses on
the development and implementation of a B2B service for large-scale
e-commerce transactions in the floricultural sector that facilitates
the agricultural SME in their day-to-day business processes under
the EU-IST framework. Specifically, EXODUS, the technology supplier
is integrating solutions ranging from state-of-the-art to mature
processes (supply chain & product lifecycle management, CRM,
data warehousing/workflow) to provide a holistic solution for
Kostelenos S.A. The end product of the project will give the
agricultural SME the opportunity to adopt models of e-commerce
for business, communication and transactions with dealers. This
complete B2B solution, presently under development, will facilitate
communication, enhance perishable product trade; provide on-line
ordering, verify product availability and order management; offer
customer decision tools for product selection, and after-sales
technical support tool; provide public access to company data
and products; and offer decision support for production planning.
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