A Study on Process Optimization for Reliability of Tracking and Tracing Information in the field of Postal Logistics

우편물류 종추적 정보 신뢰성 향상을 위한 프로세스 개선방안 연구

  • Kim, Eun-Hye (Postal Logistics Technology Research Department, ETRI) ;
  • Cha, Byung-Chul (Department of Business Administration, Changwon National University)
  • 김은혜 (한국전자통신연구원 우정물류기술연구부) ;
  • 차병철 (창원대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2011.03.30
  • Accepted : 2011.06.17
  • Published : 2011.06.30

Abstract

Visibility of the flow of goods is an important service element when considering how to improve the quality of a logistics service. Registered mail service of Korea Post, one of logistics service providers, currently supply information on the handling of postal items, such as receipts and delivery and arrival times to customers. However, internally problems related to excessive spending on operating expenses and less reliable tracking and tracing information exist due to errors in the information acquisition and link handling processes, leading to unnecessarily duplicated tasks. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose process optimization method for improving the quality of tracking and tracing information for registered mail items. We analyzed the process and information control system of the current registered mail service and identified the basic causes of the existence of less reliable tracking and tracing information. And we present optimized mail handling and information management process for removing internal problems. Test results using tracking and tracing information examples show a significant performance of the proposed method.

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