This will take time and require lot of aggressive marketing by the portals and e-shops. The current situation in India is very similar to what existed in the west some time back. Further the success of operations management depends to a large extent on the timely availability of raw materials, tools, spare-parts and other resources. In today's management parlance, it is part of logistics management. Every major industrial organisation these days, therefore, appoints a logistics manager who plays a vital role.
Business organisations receive supplies of raw materials from various destinations.
It is, therefore, necessary to constantly follow up with the suppliers and many a times with transport carriers. The transport department, these days considered part of the logistics department, has to track the truck as it travels to know its exact status, whether it will arrive at the factory on time with the vital raw materials to keep production going. Now times have changed, due to the advent of information technology. The transport company can in turn inform the logistics manager the time of arrival of the truck at the factory. With the introduction of HAS, the logistics managers are now better placed to predict the exact arrival of the goods and can plan their materials requirement better and more efficiently.