Designing a Generic Web Information Architecture for Information Exchange and Interoperability of the Ethopian E-Commerce Logistics Sector
| dc.contributor.advisor | Meshesha, Million (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Berhanu, Samuel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-31T06:49:31Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T14:11:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-31T06:49:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T14:11:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The complexity of transport and logistics chains these days needs a fast and reliable information exchange system to ensure an efficient and cost optimized logistics solutions. To this end, standardizing and automating information flow of logistics chain is needed for a more transparent and optimized services. Intermodal logistics connections are becoming more commonplace and complex involving many business actors in the process, transnational scope, and multimodal logistics stages. The objective of this research is to design a generic web Information Architecture (IA) to promote information exchange among the various e-Logistics stakeholders. The research was carried out using design science research. TOGAF was also used as a designing framework to identify entities in the IA. Both primary and secondary sources were used for data collection. Key information sources were selected from logistics companies that are involved in the logistics supply chain on the basis of TOGAF under the umbrella of DSR methodology. The challenges and practices identified during the research were mainly the absence of standardized and interoperating information exchanging platforms, which in turn forces companies to operate disjointedly, the lack of standardized and reliant information exchanging process, planning and implementation was confirmed by the interviews and other documentations i.e. literature reviews and companies’ business forms and registers. This has become an impediment on the quality of data, security issues at different levels. This necessitates the design of a generic Information Architecture, which is web based platform to exchange data among the involved logistics actors. Therefore, this research attempts to undertake the design of generic Web Information Architecture. The architecture has covered all the information required regarding the Logistics Supply chain such as transportation warehousing management and operations processes. The proposed prototype was demonstrated to the logistics firms and evaluated by experts from five logistics firms out of the ten the study was conducted. The evaluation outcome revealed that 94.1% of the specialists have confidence in the proposed IA which they deem to be appropriate, to improve information exchanging practice in the logistics chain. However, one major challenge the experts raised is the issue, how the standardized IA can materialize to simplify information exchange of the industry, which in turn necessitates attention of all stakeholders to step forward. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.90.10.223:4000/handle/123456789/22188 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Information Flow | en_US |
| dc.subject | Information Architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Generic Web Information Architecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Logistics Supply Chain | en_US |
| dc.title | Designing a Generic Web Information Architecture for Information Exchange and Interoperability of the Ethopian E-Commerce Logistics Sector | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |