Systems integration information technologies, role

Ken Kurani and his associates at ITS-Davis also paint a very large picture. They see hydrogen FCVs as far more than a successor to the conventional motor vehicle. To them, FCVs could form a system that fully integrates automobility, electricity, and information. This will be accomplished, in part, by the transformation of automobiles from their current design and role as primarily mobility tools. In a technological sense, automobiles will become integrated mobility/electricity/information platforms in a behavioral sense, they will become mobile activity locales, new sites for a range of activities now conducted in homes or business offices. 

Previous chapters touched on the role of information and associated processes and systems. Chapter 25 described supply chain technology applications. Chapter 23 described the work of the Supply-Chain Council and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (formerly CLM) in promoting supply chain process integration. Within the company. Section 16.3.3 described the S OP (Sales and Operations Planning) process for intermediate-term information exchange between operations and marketing. 

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