Computers, information systems, and communication systems are being used in transportation, warehousing, order processing, materials management, and procurement. In every major US deployment, lack of visibility over units and shipments entering a theater of operation has limited the military s ability to effectively conduct operational plans. The purpose of this study is to address the ITV issues and concerns existing in the military and civil intermodal shippers. Projected benefits from this study will highlight the operating ideas that are needed to support a standardized DOD communications network system that works in harmony with its civilian counterpart. However, data structure and processing, need to be standardized within DoD trading partners.
Attention also needs to focus on initial data input error rates.
Automatic technology is worthless if the wrong data is fed to the computer.