Accelerating Global Supply Chains with IT-Innovation (eBook)

Preface 6
Table of Contents 10
Part 1: Introduction 14
Chapter 1: Introduction 15
1 Global economy, global risks 15
2 Historical view on trade facilitation and the role of government 18
3 The ITAIDE project 31
4 Structure of the book 37
Part 2: Living Labs 40
Chapter 2: Introduction to the Living Lab Approach 41
1 The Living Lab research design 41
2 Living Lab methodology 42
3 The case of ITAIDE’s five living labs – learning in action 43
4 Conclusion 45
Chapter 3: Beer Living Lab – Intelligent Data Sharing 47
1 Problem analysis and objectives 47
2 The Beer Living Lab IT innovation 50
3 Information sharing 52
4 Real-time monitoring 55
5 Process simplification and control 56
6 Key implications and further developments 58
7 Partner collaboration and building momentum for collective action 61
Chapter 4: Paper Living Lab – Integration of SMEs 65
1 The Paper Living Lab 65
2 Current practices and reform plans 66
3 The Paper Living Lab innovation 70
4 Information sharing 73
5 Process redesign and control 74
6 Process simplification 76
7 Network collaboration 77
8 Key implications and further developments 78
Chapter 5: Food Living Lab – Complexity of Export Trade 82
1 Problem analysis and objectives 82
2 IT-related innovation and information sharing 86
3 Next step in improving dairy export processes 91
4 Key implications and further developments 96
Chapter 6: Drug Living Lab – Cold Chain Monitoring 99
1 Cold chain vignette 99
2 The cold chain challenge 100
3 Case setting and context 102
4 TO-BE cold chain pilot 107
5 Field trials 111
6 Discussion 114
7 Conclusion 115
Chapter 7: Drug Living Lab – Supply Chain Security and Control 117
1 Problem analysis and objectives 118
2 Living Lab IT innovation 122
3 Key implications and further development 125
Chapter 8: The Concept of Living Labs as Social Infrastructures for Innovation 131
1 The complexity of innovation 131
2 Mirage of predicting technology adoption and diffusion 132
3 Living Labs: voices from the field 133
4 Living Labs in discourse and literature 138
5 Conclusion 141
Part 3: ITAIDE Information Infrastructure ( I3) Framework 142
Chapter 9: ITAIDE Information Infrastructure (I3) Framework 143
1 Introduction 143
2 Information infrastructures 145
3 The I3 framework 150
4 Putting the I3 framework into practice 157
5 Discussion and conclusions 161
Chapter 10: Information Technology (IT) 163
1 Container security devices 163
2 Service Oriented Architecture 166
3 Information sharing standards 168
4 Reflection on the ITAIDE Living Labs 173
Chapter 11: Standardised Data Models 180
1 Standardisation challenges and objectives 181
2 The task force innovations 185
3 Enhancing collaboration for inter-organisational standardisation 193
4 The e-Customs innovation 196
5 Key implications on standardisation 203
Chapter 12: Interoperability Tools 206
1 Introduction 206
2 Interoperability challenges 208
3 Data and message interoperability – Level 3 211
4 Platform interoperability and validation – Level 4 212
5 Process interoperability – Level 5 217
6 Conclussions 226
Chapter 13: Procedure Redesign Methods 228
1 Introduction 228
2 The e3-control in a nutshell 229
3 The e3-control technical guideline 243
4 Application and case studies 246
Chapter 14: Network Collaboration Models 259
1 Introduction 259
2 Design issues of network innovation in eCustoms 260
3 Network innovation life cycle 267
4 Networking capabilities 272
5 Discussion and conclusions 273
Part 4: Lessons for Practice 274
Chapter 15: Value Assessment of Business- to- Government IT Innovations: The Case of e- Customs 275
1 Introduction 275
2 Value in the private and public domain 276
3 Integrated value assessment framework 278
4 Conclusions and limitations of the study 285
Chapter 16: An Implementation Framework for e- Solutions for Trade Facilitation 287
1 Introduction 287
2 Implementations of e-Solutions for trade facilitation 289
3 A roadmap for the implementation of e-Solutions for trade facilitation 301
4 Conclusions 318
Part 5: Conclusions 320
Chapter 17: Conclusions 321
1 Global economy 321
2 The ITAIDE approach 322
3 Outlook 331
Glossary 333
Annex 1: Overview of Systems Envisaged in the MASP 342
1 Purpose of this Annex 342
2 Overview of the systems envisaged in the MASP 342
Annex 2: AS- IS Process Model for Beer Export to the US 350
Annex 3: The Legal Environment of the MASP 351
Annex 4: Stepwise Approach to Derive Deployable Artifacts 352
Annex 5: Simplified Interaction Model for the Export of Dairy Products from Denmark to Russia 353
Annex 6: Excerpt of an XML Schema for Goods Items that are Applied in Transit Declarations 354
List of Abbreviations 355
List of References 360