By Sameer Kumar
Fast time-to-market expectancies and the call for for custom-tailored items current genuine demanding situations for the inflexible and stuck linear provide chains that compete in brand new financial system. Connective applied sciences meet those demanding situations head on by way of integrating the required humans, details, and items past their present obstacles.
Connective applied sciences within the provide Chain illustrates the influence that connective applied sciences have throughout offer chains. It offers strategic frameworks, conceptual and analytical versions, and case reports that concentrate on the layout, improvement, and implementation of those applied sciences as they pertain to the administration of engineering and production operations.
Placing specific emphasis on RFID, the publication addresses matters that come with these related to GPS, stock administration, qc, cellular expertise, and defense demanding situations. The booklet offers an outline of RFID functions, its underlying thoughts and ideas, and a macro point of view on its implementation within the production and repair sectors. It additionally offers a possible layout of the technology's enabled knowledge-based offer chain administration approach.
Connective applied sciences within the offer Chain is an important source if you happen to want to extend their wisdom of-and bring up their good fortune with-these purposes.
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The review showed the drivers for and benefits of RFID applications for supply chain management. These are operation independence, real-time data capture, increased visibility, reduced shrinkage, tag durability, and cost effectiveness. Equally, problems associated with cost, tag readability, data management, data ownership and sharing, standards, business process change, and privacy issues were identified. Some solutions were developed to address these problems but were yet to be validated. In this study, a taxonomy of the critical success/failure factors of RFID applications for supply chain management was developed.
Prater et al. (2005) claimed that the missing link in RFID research is the investigation of market drivers pulling RFID applications for supply chain management. , 2005) and a research framework was developed for future applied research on RFID implementation. Although useful, the proposed theoretical framework suffers from a lack of diversity; it does not include the impact of RFID applications for supply chain management in other industries. Today’s retailers, consumer products manufacturers, and logistics enterprises find themselves stuck between two forces (IBM, 2004b).
IBM’s RFID planning roadmap is a useful tool for enterprises that plan to adopt RFID to clarify the strategic and tactical plans for RFID applications in the supply chain. This review shows that the recent developments in and future outlook for RFID applications in supply chain management appear to be bright. Whether it enters the mainstream this year, next year, or even in 2010, the business value of RFID is undeniable. , 2006). Retailers can benefit from reduced inventory, because the improved supply chain visibility allows better demand forecasting, lower safety stocks, and lower order cycle times.