A Study on B2B Mobile Solutions in Japan

Recently, cellular phones are used everywhere on the Earth. In Japan, smart phones with multi functionalities such as camera, Internet accessible, GPS, IC card, and so on are getting popular in these days. Since most of people go around with smart phones, it is expected to use it in business scene as well instead of PC. In this paper, we survey usages of smart phones in business in Japan and discuss on the trend of the applications after classifying these applications using homogeneity analysis. Then we take an example of Asai Corporation in which they introduce wireless LAN connectable smart phones in taking inventory and reduced its time from three weeks into one hour and half. Based on the case, we discuss future development of the usage of cellular phones in business.