Design and Prototyping of IoD Shared Service for Small and Medium Enterprise

The importance to have information on delivery accurate and on-time is considered quite high in B2B (business-to-business) and B2C (business-to-consumer) segments. It is also essential for managing supply chain and delivery networks. With the aim of being fast, safe, controllable and traceable, delivery and trucking companies have developed a quite different logistics networks and systems in their logistics processes. Usually implementing of such processes requires a lot of resources from finance and IT perspective, which is not very suitable for SME (small and medium-sized enterprises). This paper presents concept, design and prototyping of the solution, which can be used and shared between delivery companies, 3PL (third-party logistics) operators and consignees to get IoD (information on delivery) accurate and on-time without implementing high costs and complicated processes and IT systems. The proposed solution is primarily based on QR (quick response) code recognition and data sharing.