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An Inventory-Based Mobile Application for Warehouse Management to Digitize Very Small Enterprises

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In today’s world, digitization has reached an important role. While more and more enterprises are interested in a realization and aware of its importance, it rather lacks on the implementation. This applies most of all for those with a low budget for new investments, such as small and medium enterprises (SME), as well as even smaller forms (VSE). For this reason, a sectoral digitization approach based on a real-world VSE is pursued. By using the design science research methodology, a low cost and easy to use warehouse management system for the optimization of the inner logistics of VSEs is developed, evaluated and presented in this work.

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    Daniel Staegemann, Matthias Volk, Christian Lucht, Christian Klie, Michael Hintze & Klaus Turowski

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Staegemann, D., Volk, M., Lucht, C., Klie, C., Hintze, M., Turowski, K. (2019). An Inventory-Based Mobile Application for Warehouse Management to Digitize Very Small Enterprises. In: Abramowicz, W., Corchuelo, R. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20482-2_21

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