Impact of Drone and Big Data Integration on Supply Chain Efficiency and Operations

This paper focuses on analyzing the effects that are characterized by the use of drones in supply chain management and the role played by big data integration. The analysis of the contemporary trends that take place in the supply chain industry has demonstrated that considering the use of drones and IoT the companies have attainable opportunities to become more effective and transparent. Depending on what type of sensors and cameras are mounted onto an unmanned aerial vehicle, it can collect tremendous amounts of over the airspace. When used with big data analytics, this information can be used for logistics, observing shifts in users' behavior and last-mile delivery. In this paper, the importance of the big data analytics in procurement and supply chain management decision making process will be evaluated, usage of drones in the last mile delivery will be discussed, and dependence of both the drone and big data technologies in supply chain management innovations will be established.