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The potential effects of IT on the supply chain have been amply demonstrated using a simple model of one buyer, one seller and a combination of intermodal ‘moves’ as illustrated in Figure 8. Production logistics and associated storage have been deliberately excluded from the model even though Module 2 concerned with the ‘Preparation of the Cargo at the Exporters’ whether the goods ordered aught to be made or bought by the exporter or seller. It also has been demonstrated that, even at this simplified level, modelling and simulating the activities of a supply chain is a specialist task at present best left to research organisations and consultants using specialist software systems. Further, supply chains do not operate in isolation similar to the example chain used in this research, but in the form of networks of suppliers, manufacturers and customers as illustrated by Figure 13 below (IBEC-CBI, Anderson, B.; Schmidt, F.A.; and Fynes, B.; 2002).

Figure 13: The Interaction between Supply Chains and Elements of Supply Chains

This prompts the question of: “How could IT be applied to make this rather powerful tool to explore the effects of different logistics service providers on time and costs involved in a supply chain and, according to reality, within a network of interacting supply chains and links, available to consumers of logistics services?”

The answer to this is believed to lie in extensive and complex Web-based portals as instigated by eLOGMAR-M, offering access to distributed computing. This will enable a remote member of the port and cargo community to use a combination of tools to model, simulate and evaluate supply chains of his or her choice.

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