Rising need of Automation in Logistics and Supply Chain Industry

Supply Chain Management has become an important sector in lot of industries today.With help of modern technology, the supply chain management practices streamline business and increase the productivity in competitive marketplace today.Automation primarily entails detailed study and identification of repetitive and time-consuming tasks, and make the system error-free, to then automate them.Because supply chains involved and based on process-oriented tasks, it is very important to build these tasks error free and as efficient as possible.Supply chains can also be rife with errors as they encompass so many different processes, ranging from manual documentation, production, inventory, shipping, and more -all of which are logistics processes that can be automated.The thesis focused on finding the drivers and barriers in implementing the process of automation in various area of supply chain and comparing it with the conventional system.