Drones and Uber Medical Transportations

Question: Discuss about the Drones and Uber for Medical Transportations. Answer: Introduction: The rural sector is that area of the region which is usually not in the focus radar of the Government or Industries. People mainly rely on some small scale business activities like agriculture, horticulture etc. and are not very well educated. The area is cut out from the main city area and hence all the major facilities are far from rural areas. The things become tougher when there is no infrastructure to support the needs of the people. As per the WHO, the most important things that are needed for sustaining a good life is Health and Education. Good health needs good medical facilities and this report is an attempt to analyze that how better Medical deliveries can be ensured in the rural belt with the help of technologies like Drone and companies like Uber. Last Mile Delivery: Last mile delivery is a supply chain concept that is to be brought into practice in case the companies wish to ensure that their products reached the consumers right at their door step. It is a mode to bring the Customer Order Decoupling point closest to the customer. Through the use of technologies like Drone and Uber, basically the task is to bring the medical facilities right at the arm lengths stretch for the rural based customers(GOODMAN, 2010). The concept is to remove all the constraints that are there with the rural sector and make things available for them quickly and effectively. Issues with Rural Sectors: The foremost issue is the lack of road infrastructure that dont allow many logistics set up to work effectively for their need fulfillment. This is a big concern that must be in the top radar in case some thought process or concept building is being designed for the rural sector(Norman, 2014). The second issue is that even if there is a logistics service provider ready to serve the rural belt the time taken to reach there is huge and hence the products dont reach there on time. Which is big concern of worry. The third issue is that rural belt is not self-sufficient to establish their own supply chain system and ensure that things are reaching them on time. They are majorly dependent on external facilities. Lastly, talking specifically about the medical facilities the lack of facilities available in the rural belt makes it difficult that the facilities could be arranged in there. Also latest medicines in the best of the form is usually not available there. Hence overall a need for a through solution is needed. Capabilities of Drones and Uber: Drone is the upcoming technology that is coming in the area of supply chain and fulfillment sector quickly. The capability of drones is that they can be programmed and can be run in an unmanned manner. The computer controlled network optimization process that is backing the drones is making it capable to carry goods from one location to another in a very cost effective and efficient manner and most importantly it is independent of any road infrastructure(Kearney, 2012). Another positive aspect of drones is that they dont fly too high and hence control is easier to maintain. For medical supplies in rural sector, drone is a potent solution. Uber is biggest app based cab service provider and serve people of almost all the major countries throughout the world. Since the mobility benefit that they have and they serve the logistics and commuting requirements of many people daily. They have access to all the locations through their operations and hence are a potent method to enhance the capabilities in the rural belt of the countries. Such potential of Uber is meant to be unleashed and that will form the way for the huge supply chain boom in the rural sector and will enable the rural population to avail the best medical facilities at their vicinity. Limitations: The major limitations are two: Government regulations are becoming stricter for Drone operations and Government overall is not very comfortable in dealing with drones as they are riskier is operations. They are also not very safe when it comes to sensitivity of data and its management and hence it is not seen as a good investment by people(Brar, 2013). Uber is ultimately a Cab service provider and they are doing well in that field effectively. Now for them to change their business is a tough ask for the core operations and hence some reengineering is needed to make this model working. The Next Level Collaborative Work: The nest level thing that is thought about this proposal is the collaborative working between the Drones and Uber. Uber is known as the king of analytics and drone will need some immediate data crunching to ensure the best results. Also, the mix logistics operations between the two will also ensure supreme optimization of resources and that will take this model on the success path. Drones will be quicker way to serve the needs and Uber can provide that support. The tagging of Uber cabs with drones will ensure that the risk of drone mismanagement can be reduced to a great extent and if that thing is achieved then the model will be able to sustain successfully and will be able to deliver some good levels of outputs that are not possible right now. So overall the collaborative operations is the go ahead path for the model. References: Brar, S. (2013). Drones for Deliveries. Berkleys: Berkleys University. GOODMAN, R. W. (2010). Whatever You Call It, Just Dont Think of Last-Mile Logistics, Last. London: KN Portal Publications. Kearney, A. (2012). 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