MGT737 Advanced Applied Management: Automation Impact on Warehouses

This research proposal investigates the impact of automation on warehouses in New Zealand, focusing on employment, risks, and the benefits of human labor compared to robotics. It aims to understand the interaction between robotics and human labor, identifying the advantages of human labor and the risks associated with automation. The methodology includes both primary research, using questionnaires and surveys with logistics companies, and secondary research, reviewing articles, journals, and books. Ethical considerations such as anonymity, confidentiality, and informed consent are addressed. The proposal also outlines a research budget, time constraints, and potential limitations, providing a comprehensive plan for exploring the future of automation in the logistics and supply chain industry in New Zealand.

Running head: ADVANCED APPLIED MANAGEMENT
ADVANCED APPLIED MANAGEMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author Note

Table of Contents
1.0: Introduction.............................................................................................................................3
2.0: Aims and Operationalization....................................................................................................3
2.1: Research Question................................................................................................................3
2.2: Research Aim.......................................................................................................................3
2.3: Research Objectives.............................................................................................................4
2.4: Operationalization................................................................................................................4
3.0: Literature Review.....................................................................................................................5
3.1: Automation in the Logistic Industry.....................................................................................5
3.2: Impact on the Workforce......................................................................................................6
3.3: Advantages and Disadvantages of Automation....................................................................7
3.4: Human vs Robotics...............................................................................................................8
3.5: Conclusion:...........................................................................................................................9
4.0: Methodology...........................................................................................................................10
4.1: Research design:.................................................................................................................10
4.2: Research Method................................................................................................................10
4.2.1: Primary Research.........................................................................................................10
4.2.2: Secondary Research.....................................................................................................12
5.0: Ethical Consideration.............................................................................................................13
5.1: Anonymity/Confidentiality.....................................................................................................14

5.2: Vulnerable Participants.......................................................................................................14
5.3: Potential Bias......................................................................................................................14
5.4: Harm to participants...........................................................................................................15
5.5: Invasion of Privacy:............................................................................................................15
5.6: Deception:...........................................................................................................................15
5.7: Contact methods of research Participants...........................................................................15
5.9: Informed Consent...............................................................................................................16
5.10: REA Supplied...................................................................................................................17
5.11: limitations.........................................................................................................................17
6.0: Research and Management Budget.......................................................................................17
6.1: Monetary.............................................................................................................................17
6.2: Time:...................................................................................................................................18
6.3: Fantasy Table of Contents..................................................................................................22
6.4: EMPHASIS CHANGE.......................................................................................................23
7.0: Bibliography:..........................................................................................................................23

1.0: Introduction
Currently I’m studying about the logistics and supply chain and also worked for 1 year in
DHL India and it has wide area of departments such as warehouse, transportation, e-commerce,
reverse logistics etc. I’ve always wondered how the future of logistics going to evolve and what
will be the impacts and risks faced through logistics because now days every organisation who
handles logistics are reducing the workers and started adopting automation. So, I’m specifically
concentrating on New Zealand how are they going to face the new era of technology of
automation in logistics and supply chain. The automation has bought some of the advance
technology such as the internet of things, automated transportation and other futuristic
innovations which is going to be efficiency and also at the same time the risks involved in it. So,
I’m going to research detailly about the impacts which is faced in automation in logistics and
supply chain in New Zealand.
2.0: Aims and Operationalization
2.1: Research Question
The human and robot interaction is a vast topic and cannot be covered in the proposal. In this
research proposal certain research question is identified to support and focus on the topic. The
research question is:
How automation impacts warehouse (Unemployment and other risks involved) and what
are the benefits with human labor than robotic?

2.2: Research Aim
The aim of this paper is to develop the clear understanding of the interaction between
robotics and human labor. The impacts of automation on warehouse is also identified in the
context of risk and employment.
2.3: Research Objectives
 Find out how automation impacts warehouse, employment and risk associates with it.
 To identify the advantages of the Human labor over robotics.
2.4: Operationalization
The first aim will be answered through collecting information by secondary and primary
research. Online database is used as the main source to gather relevant information about the
research aim. Several journals, articles and other internet resources are reviewed in order to
extract useful information about the impact of automation on warehouse. The web databases are
searched for understanding the automation progress in New Zealand. The information about the
impacts of the automation is also collected from several sources. The current scenario of the
automation in the warehouses are identified in some published articles. Books and journals can
be utilized to check any theoretical explanation of the automation impacts on employment and
risks associated with it. The primary research for the automation of logistics will be based on the
closed questionnaires and also interview and online survey. The primary research will also be
conducted through several set of questionnaires. The questionnaires will be answered by the any
leading logistics company and ask whether it going to be an impact to the logistics in New
Zealand when it is automated how are they going to solve the problems which will arise or what
sort of problem going to arise and what are the risks that might involve and what are the benefits
they going to get. If the researchers are unable to get the interviews, as a backup plan, the survey

linked will be shared with the employees and will be requested to submit their reviews within the
two weeks of timeline.
The second aim will be primarily answered through secondary research. Relevant
information can be collected from several articles, journals and books. The basic theoretical
explanation can be found from this sources. The online databases provides many useful insights
to understand the advantages of the human labor over the robots. Several articles are available in
the web where the interaction of the robot and humans are discussed suitably. Different author
illustrates their own perception about the human and robot interaction (Kaymaz & Soyuer,
2016). However, the sources where the same perception as the research question is followed will
be prioritize over other sources. The primary research cannot be conducted because of the
employee’s perception that engaging with such surveys, their productivity may decrease than
usual. It is hard to get authorize access to survey companies like WOOLSWORTHS logistics as
well.
3.0: Literature Review
3.1: Automation in the Logistic Industry
In upcoming years, the productivity margins are believed to raise out of the chart due to
the implementation of Artificial intelligence and automation within SCM sector in unison.
Experts also believed that the confluence of these technologies will not just provide a friction
free transportation system but it can also provide error free swift services across the world along
with the logistic industry. Automation in the logistic industry can also assist to achieve
effectiveness and precision in the entire supply chain processing. In some years, the technologies
will be able to provide labor free transportation system, logistics merging with big data, machine
learning logistic system and supplier inventory management by artificial intelligence. As we are
familiar with the TESLA’s new car models which provides an auto driving utility. The new

models are capable of offering automated driving experience to a certain limit. These approach
will be expand to other industries as well (Kaymaz & Soyuer, 2016). The automated delivery
system can be implemented which can provide faster delivery without any labor effort. For
instance, in medical industries, drones are frequently used to deliver medicine across a large
amount of area. The next close approach to automation is big data utilization. To further acquire
the data for autonomous operations both inside and outside the logistic/SCM systems, following
facets could be the best options.
 Traditional enterprise data
 Website user behavior data
 Social media data
 Advertising response data
 Financial business forecast
 Vehicle diagnostics, driving patterns and location information
 Traffic and weather data from sensors, monitors and forecast systems
Usages of the ML and AI in the logistic have already reached a level where brands such as UOS
and FedEx are currently feeding their learning system the scribbled or illegible handwriting that
are often found on envelops. For such effective results, the Machine learning and Artificial
Intelligence are put into practice within warehouses. Nowadays, machines are capable of identify
patterns, recognize repeated trends and linked with selected entities.
3.2: Impact on the Workforce
The rapid evolvement of the emerging technologies are having substantial impact on the
workforce. Nowadays, most of the firms depends on the technologies rather than large amount of
employees to achieve a huge amount of economic scale. For instance, GOOGLE is $370 billion

dollar industry and has only 55,000 employees. The impact of the automation on the workhouse
can also be identified by comparing the production and work efficiency (Giannikas, McFarlane
& Hyde, 2016). Many experts argues that the technology is destroying the general job but creates
new jobs. However, complexity occurs as the rate of job vacancy is gradually decreasing. A
single robot is capable of producing huge amount of products comparing to hundreds of workers.
Even though the robots are not fully automated as its need to monitor and operated by humans,
robots are replacing thousand time more worker than the amount of new job opportunity
unwraps. Martin ford issues a warning in his book “as technology accelerates, machine
automation may ultimately penetrate the economy to the extent that wages no longer provide the
bulk of consumers with adequate discretionary income and confidence in the future” (Shaw-
Garlock, 2017). He also states that machines can replace most of the manual works in the future
and as a result unemployment issue can occur dramatically. Rapid development of the
automation in the organizations effecting the environment in both positive and negative manner.
Firms are realizing that artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics can replace mass
amount of workers and improve efficiency, productivity and accuracy of operations.
3.3: Advantages and Disadvantages of Automation
The 20th century era of automation came with a buzz. Automation took away the dull and
routine tasks, and most of these tasks are transferred to outsourcing and offshoring companies.
There are several advantages and disadvantages of the automation (Barber et al., 2018). One of
the biggest advantages of the automation, it can easily operate in the most difficult areas where
humans cannot operate due to dangerous environment. There are also many tasks which are not
humanly possible or beyond the human capabilities. Automation can be useful to complete these

type of difficult tasks (Giannikas, McFarlane & Hyde, 2016). The automation is mainly adopted
because it can increase the productivity while taking less time. The automated machines also
takes less amount of investment when comparing to the employee wages. Since, the heavy works
are accomplished by machines, employees have more time to spend on other business process.
The automation approach also have some certain disadvantages as it can affect the employment
in a negative manner. Many argues that automation will increase the unemployment rate because
automation has already taken over the jobs of the human workforce. The rate of unemployment
will also going to increase as firms will adopt the automation approach rapidly (Shaw-Garlock,
2017). The automation approaches are still considered as a beta version. Even though the
automation technologies are rapidly evolving, the applications of the automation is still limited.
Some believes this is the reason that workers still have their jobs with them. The automation can
also rise new problems as it can create many security and privacy related issues. Automation
systems are often found vulnerable to attacks since they have limited intelligence. The main
disadvantage of the automation is, it required a huge amount of investment to construct the
technology. Not only that the technologies take huge amount of investment, the technologies
need to be maintained in order to get best out of them. Offshoring and automation has both the
benefits of cost-savings however, offshoring does not have disadvantage as much as automation
does.
3.4: Human vs Robotics
The robots vs human has become one of the most debatable topic in our generation.
There is an argument that robots are believed to be taken over the humanity as shown in Sci-Fi
movies. According to the Stephen Hawking, one of the well-known cosmologist, the optimal

development of the artificial intelligence can spell the end of the human race. Elon musk also
believes the same theory as he states that human race will probably extinct and technology will
be a part of it. The automation has three steps of development. The first stage is associates with
putting the technology into works (Giannikas, McFarlane & Hyde, 2016). The second stage is to
make them automated and the third stage is associated with machine learning. For instance, in
the first stage a car has been built, later the car need to be automated. In the final the stage, the
car need to learn on its own through machine learning. Experts also believed that, robots can
alter human labors to minimize the work effort. Though it seems like, the future will be covered
with the robots, the applications of the automation is uncertain. The automation can also rise new
problems as it can create many security and privacy related issues (Yoshioka, 2017). Automation
systems are often found vulnerable to attacks since they have limited intelligence.
3.5: Conclusion:
After reviewing several articles and journals, the understanding over automation and
robotics over human labor is described in previous sections. Even though, the automation and
robotics can crate unemployment in future, the evolvement of this technology is surely affecting
our environment and transferring it to more modern world. The possibility of unemployment can
be ignored as several new job opportunities can be occur after successful development of this
type of technologies. This approach will also change our lifestyle as most of the work will be
completed by the automation. However, uncertainty cannot be avoided due to the complexity of
the interaction between human labor and robotics (Glenda, 2015). The complexity will occur
while assigning the wages according to the work effort. If the same task is been completed by
both human and robots, the robots will surely take less time and cost to operate while human
effort for completing the task will be much expensive and time consuming. These type of
complexity will surely appears in the future. Several experts proposed several theories associated

with the interaction between human and robotics. On other hand, the development of the
automated technologies is still not completed. Even though this type of technology is rapidly
developing, the end results cannot be predicted (Giannikas, McFarlane & Hyde, 2016). Experts
also unable to predict the future applications of this technologies and how far it can grow. So, it
can be concluded that the impact of the automation on the human society is uncertain and cannot
be predicted accurately.
4.0: Methodology
4.1: Research design:
The proposed research will be based on non-experimental nature. Even though certain
impacts of the automation can be measured in warehouses. The problem occurs while analyzing
the effect of the automation in a specific industry. However, several workers will be interviewed
from companies like WOOLSWORTHS. The survey results will be shared with different peoples
from wide range of background. The workers will be asked to submit their review through a
survey link which will be shared with them previously.
The research methods used in this proposal is collection of both primary and secondary
research. Information extracted from published journals, articles and books are presented along
with the survey result from logistic companies. The secondary research will be conducted with
the help of published journal, article and books. Suitable information associates with the research
question will be extracted from these sources.
4.2: Research Method
Due to the complex nature of this research involving both secondary and primary
research, a wide range of methods will be utilized to demonstrate a clear idea of the topic.

4.2.1: Primary Research
The primary research for the automation of logistics will be based on the closed
questionnaires and also interview and online survey. Firstly, various set of questionnaires will be
developed with wide range of questionnaires regarding the automation effect in the logistic
companies. Then, some specific questions will be selected and checked by the supervisors to
ensure that the questions does not cause any type of offense. Finally, the questions will be
reviewed to check that the respective answers of the selected questions will be able to answer the
research question or not. Some logistic companies will be selected in which the interviews and
survey can be conducted. The questionnaires will be answered by the any leading logistics
company and ask whether it going to be an impact to the logistics in New Zealand when it is
automated how are they going to solve the problems which will arise or what sort of problem
going to arise and what are the risks that might involve and what are the benefits they going to
get. To ensure the questionnaire fits the research philosophy as set above, the survey needs to
include open-ended questions to gather qualitative data to answer the research aims and
objectives. These will be used only when necessary to ensure the length of the survey is not too
long and to encourage more participation. Some survey links will also be shared with different
employees from a wide range of field. The survey will be set based on some certain questions
which are alike the interview questions. A basic description of the objectives will be mailed to all
the participants in order to familiarize them about the research aim. Interviews and survey’s
questions will mainly consist of yes/no type questions and explanation section against the chosen
option.

My gathering of information through primary research will be companies like
WOOLSWORTHS in which they have huge distribution centers in Australia and New Zealand
and they’ve their own logistics department all over New Zealand. So, I might take some
interview with the authorities who handle WOOLSWORTHS logistics. And I’ll be arranging
some online closed interview which can be helpful for those who I cannot meet them in person
and this might help me to dig some more information for my research project. I believe
qualitative research might help me to gather the information which is required for my topic. The
primary research for this project will be mainly focused on the quantitative analysis. Quantitative
analysis can be useful to measure and categorized to extract the end result. It can also be used to
construct useful tables and graphs from the collected data.
After gathering all the reviews under the given timeline, the result of the questions will be
extracted from both surveys and interviews. Then the extracted data will be coded into a suitable
form to add in the final report. Later, the results from the primary research will be contrasted and
compared in the context of founding from the literature review. The participants will be given
choice to get the end results of the survey through email if they are interested. The survey linked
will be available for three weeks and the participants will be notified trough the email about the
deadlines. The interview dates will be fixed after obtain permission from the authorities.
4.2.2: Secondary Research
For the secondary research I’ve collected few of the article journal and websites which is
going to help me to research on impacts of automation New Zealand. According to Forest
industry engineering Association New Zealand “Logistics within the forest industry is going
through a major shakeup. Smart technology - robotics, automation, cloud computing, big data

analytics and improved connectivity within the supply chain is reshaping how leading companies
are adapting to and operating in the 21st century” (Association, 2016). The wood flow company
runs in both the countries in Australia and New Zealand. They have described as that the
automation in logistics might be helpful for the company with new technologies made for
transportation and features for that will be like filling the woods with automation remote and
virtual reality glasses and other latest advance technology which is going to make more efficient
for the company. And on the other hand, some of the company started reducing the workers and
started adopting automation and it slowly becoming a threat to the half of the New Zealand jobs
within next 20 years and it will be easily replaced the human labors (Unemployment). There will
also be breach of information of the inventory can be easily hacked and also can be shared to the
competitors which will also be a demerit to the automation of logistics because certain
information’s should be kept safe so that’s why they’ve hired humans instead of automation (Ho
et al., 2014). So, there are two ways which goes hand to hand that is advantage and disadvantage
of the automation of logistics in New Zealand.
This will be little challenging because the automation in New Zealand is going to adopt
in next 2 decades. So, the information might be limited so that’s why I’m interested in doing this
particular topic for the project.
The Automation in logistics can help them to trace the products and also get the timely
information shared, On time delivery to the customer, lean inventory AKA Just in time inventory
(helps to optimize your inventory by reducing the pace of the warehouse) and it can forecast the
demand.
I was also able to gather useful information from the online databases. Online databases
are the finest place to find most current information about any topic. Even though there could be

issue around the verifiability and reliability. However, the government and verified sites will be
examined with higher priority to gather valuable insights.
5.0: Ethical Consideration
All the research activities must follow the ethical guidelines in order to avoid any
complication. Mainly the primary research process needs to be monitored very carefully as
multiple risks can appear during the lifecycle. Primary research will be conducted after getting
approval from the NMIT Ethics Committee.
5.1: Anonymity/Confidentiality
While conducting interviews and surveys with the participants, it will be ensured that
their responses will be kept secret along with the and personal details. To avoid any complexity,
the researcher will gather minimal personal information as less as possible. Anonymity is not
likely possible because of the interviews. The participants identities will be kept secure along
with the survey results. While conducting interviews it will be ensured that their responses
cannot be traced or identified as well. The confidentiality will be maintained throughout the
primary research. The final report will not disclose any of their personal details as well. For
confidentiality issues, the email address filed will be not marked as a mandatory. In special cases
where the participants want copy of their responses or the final report, they had to send a mail
along with the requirements.
5.2: Vulnerable Participants
The participants for the interviews and surveys will be chosen based on the certain job
descriptions. Only the employees of logistics will be able to participants. It will be ensured that,

the age limit to participant in these researches is strictly 18. NO one under 18 years will not be
allowed to participates in the research. In the surveys, most of the questions are yes/no type of
question. The survey form will print thank you after collecting all the responses in order to show
appreciation.
5.3: Potential Bias
Every participant and the organizations will be asked to kept secure the research
questions and any other information associated with it. On other hand, I will ensure that any
information related with the organizations will also be kept secure. The researcher will regularly
meet the supervisors in order to avoid certain risks and gain useful inputs. The researcher is
human so there is a slight possibility of subconscious bias as well.
5.4: Harm to participants
The research questions will be simple and strictly associates with our topic. So there is no
chance of mental harm. It will be ensured that no personal question is asked. The final set of
questions must be approved by the supervisor. The totals survey and interviews will take around
10 minutes to finish. So, participants will not be forced to participate in the research as well.
5.5: Invasion of Privacy:
The privacy is considered as one of the most crucial area and need to be secure properly.
To avoid any complexity, the researcher will gather minimal personal information as less as
possible. Anonymity is not likely possible because of the interviews. The participants identities
will be kept secure along with the survey results. While conducting interviews it will be ensured
that their responses cannot be traced or identified as well. The confidentiality will be maintained
throughout the primary research. The final report will not disclose any of their personal details as
well

5.6: Deception:
There will be no deception as the researcher will present themselves as NMIT course
associative. The research will be conducting with honesty and deception. The researcher must
appreciate the participants engagement. Participants also can get the final report if interested
through email. Every research process must monitor in order to ensure there is no deception in
the research.
5.7: Contact methods of research Participants
Once the research gat the REA approval, the next aim will be start contact with the
selected companies. Researcher will approach to the organization’s executives in order to grant
access of the survey and interviews. The researchers and organization executives must conduct a
face to face meeting in order to familiarized them about the project aim. They can also
communicate through other medium as well. The organization also must approve the survey
questions and assist the researcher to share the survey questions among the participants. No
crucial data related with the participants or the organization cannot be gathered in order. The
research will be monitored by the supervisors in order to identify flaws. Survey questions can be
shared with multiple organization In New Zealand. Employees from several companies can
participant in the research.
Email will be used as a medium of communication with the participants. Participants wil
get notification of the deadline through the emails. Emails also will be used to request the final
result. The email address collection will be optional and must kept secure.
5.8: Data Safety
The revise conducted from bot surveys and interviews will be stored in a specific system.
Only the researcher will have the access to the system. Information must keep secure with

password protected encryption. Useful data can also be uploaded to cloud as a backup through a
personal account. This account also must stay protected with password. Tis approaches must be
followed in order to avoid any data lick (Yoshioka, 2017). We need to ensure that the
information does not end up in any unauthorize Parsons’s hands.
5.9: Informed Consent
Every question will be described in simple way and an explanation must be shared with
the participants. A brief explanation of the research aim and objectives will assist the participants
to provide more accurate reviews.
Participants also must be familiar with the consent statement. A yes/no question will be
added in a form to confirm the rules and regulation. The informed consent statement will be able
to explain the aim of the research and how the participants re involving with it. This survey and
interviews will not affect the employees in any way. non-participants will not have any
disadvantage for not participating in the interviews and surveys. The statement also states that
participants can withdraw at any stage.
5.10: REA Supplied
The Primary research cannot state before getting the REA approval. The proposed
research details are posted in the dropbox at the same time of research proposal If the proposed
method does not get approved certain changes will be made in research methods. The NMIT
research and ethical committee protocols re strictly followed during the primary research.
5.11: limitations
There is also certain imitation which will be faced during the research.
1. Contact with the logistic companies.

2. Lack of Employs serious effort.
3. Less amount of measurable data.
6.0: Research and Management Budget
6.1: Monetary
This report has a limited monetary budget as this research is for educational purposes and
no funding has been sought. Cost will only be incurred if they provide significant benefit to the
quality of the final report. The only cost that may occur are the following:
 Survey Monkey Premium
 Potential Printing cost
 Inter library loans
It is understood as NMIT students will have access to Survey Monkey but if features of premium
are required then it is likely that this cost will occur. At this time, it is unknow whether the
features of Survey Monkey premium are needed for this project.
6.2: Time:
CONTACT TASK DUE TASK
COMPLETED
Finalize the topic
which is been
chosen
28/07/2018 Completed
Andi Jones Have an 01/08/2018 Completed

Appointment with
your mentor
ProQuest
and other
websites
Gathering all the
information’s for
Primary and
Secondary data
03/08/2018 Completed
Andi Jones Progress report 1
submission
06/08/2018 Completed
Contact Task Due Task Completed
Andi jones Progress report 1
submission
06/08/2018 Completed
Websites
and books
Qualitative
research
information’s
gathering
07/08/2018 Completed
Start Preparing
progress report 2
10/08/2018 Completed
Andi jones Progress report 2
Submission
13/08/2018 Completed
ProQuest,
books and
library
Information
gathering for
literature reviews
15/08/2018 Completed
Library and Gathering 20/08/2018 Completed

ProQuest Information’s
Finalizing Primary
research
methodology
23/08/2018 Completed
Preparing research
proposal
25/08/2018 Completed
Andi jones
& Sam
Young
Research proposal
submission
27/08/2018
Andi jones
& Sam
Young
Ethic application
and informed
consent
Submission
27/08/2018
Preparing
Questionnaires
survey
01/09/2018
Interviewing
WOOLSWORTHS
logistics
Department
05/09/2018
Preparing Progress
report 3
07/09/2018
Andi jones Progress report 3 10/09/2018

Submission
ProQuest
and
websites
Preparing progress
report 4
15/09/2018
Andi jones
& Sam
Young
Progress report 4
Submission
24/09/2018
Preparing online
survey
27/09/2018
Online
Survey Data
Gathering
Information
received
29/09/2018
Conducting
Interview
09/10/2018
Collecting primary
Research
Information
15/10/2018
Gathering
information for
oral presentation
20/10/2018
Andi jones
& Sam
Young
Presenting oral
presentation
23/10/2018

Analysing findings 25/10/2018
Preparing
Research
Reflection Journal
05/11/2018
Andi jones
& Sam
Young
Research
Reflection Journal
Submission
12/11/2018
Andi jones
& Sam
Young
Research report
Submission
12/11/2018
6.3: Fantasy Table of Contents
The fantasy table of contents covers the chapters be covered in the final research report.
The anticipated layout of the following report is likely to be in the following chapters:
1.0: Introduction, this chapter will introduce the research project as well as providing a
background of the study. This chapter will also include an abstract which will provide a
summary of the entire report.
2.0: Literature review, this will look at literature surrounding the topic. The literature will have
a focus on what does a four-day working week mean, how a four-day working week impacts on
work/life balance, job satisfaction and productivity. Literature review will also look at
management theory such as Hertzberg two factor theory and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

3.0: Methodology, this section will look at methodology used throughout this project. This is
highly likely to be similar the methodology section of this proposal.
4.0: Primary research findings, this will look at analyzing the results gathered to create a
discussion into key themes.
5.0: Discussion, this will look at applying the literature and theory to the findings of this report.
This chapter will look at discussing what the research has uncovered.
6.0: Conclusions, this section aims to summaries the discussion chapter and clearly answer any
research question limitations. Discuss how theory is related and include limitations and areas of
future research. It is highly likely each chapter will be broken down into subsections.
6.4: EMPHASIS CHANGE
I took this topic is because I’ve a background of logistics field experience and also, I’m
currently doing logistics and supply chain management so I thought of picking a topic which is
related to filed. So, this is my first progress report the emphasis changes are not being finalised
yet. So, maybe in future if the research or any other research while reviewing the topic then if
don’t get any desired requirement then I’ll look forward to change it. So, far I’ll stick with my
topic. Since I’ve worked in DHL global logistics and supply chain, I’ve some knowledge about
logistics and how it works and what are the conflicts arises if automation takes over and the other
information which I’ve collected are from magazines and books about future of logistics and
supply chain and some from WOOLSWORTHS logistics department and other firms who
handles the logistics and supply chain in New Zealand and other resources will be gathered
through website and get all the information collected and start my research in impacts on
automation in logistics and supply chain New Zealand.

7.0: Bibliography:
Ho, Y., Sato-Shimokawara, E., Wada, K., Yamaguchi, T., & Tagawa, N. (2014, July). A study
for assistant robotic system using motion capture method for adapting to human-robot interface.
In Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2014 12th IEEE International Conference on (pp. 758-762).
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