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Food product contamination has potentially devastating effects on companies and supply chains. However, the impact of … contamination has still not been thoroughly studied from a supply chain planning perspective. This paper models a contamination … event in a generic food supply chain consisting of suppliers, processing centers, and retailers. Contamination is detected …
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; and (d) RFID technology is used to reduce or eliminate the errors. The first case is the base strategy and a common … inventory shrinkage errors. We compare these improvement strategies and derive critical tag price for RFID implementation as a … technological remedy for the inventory inaccuracy problem. Conditions for the profitability of RFID adoption are discussed. …
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show investments. This study proposes an RFID-enabled track and traceability framework to improve information visibility at … of information made available by RFID is challenging; thus, the objective of this study is to outline how to incorporate … RFID data into existing enterprise data to deliver analytical solutions to the trade show and exhibition industry. The …
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a retail store is RFID-tagged. While the business case for expensive items to be RFID tagged may be somewhat clear, we … claim that even ‘cheap’ items (i.e., those that cost less than an RFID tag) should be RFID tagged for retailers to benefit … from efficiencies associated with item-level visibility. We study the relative price premiums a retailer with RFID tagged …
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This paper concerns the integration of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technologies in helicopters. A global RFID … system, including RFID tags (passive, battery assisted and active), reading modules and data concentrator, will be embedded …
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This study presents an RFID-based traceability approach to improve production scheduling. An in-depth study for a … manufacturer is conducted to explore scheduling options enabled by an RFID-based traceability system. We propose a novel … suggest that an RFID-based scheduling rule generates better performance compared to traditional scheduling rules with regard …
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managers design better cycle-count policies. Finally, we discuss implications of our study on RFID investments in a supply …
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We explore buyback contracts in a supplier–retailer supply chain where the retailer faces a price-dependent downward-sloping demand curve subject to uncertainty. Differentiated from the existing literature, this work focuses on analytically examining how the uncertainty level embedded in...
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The emergence of B2B spot markets has greatly facilitated spot trading and impacted supply chain structures as well as the way commercial transactions take place between firms in many industries. While providing new opportunities, the B2B spot market also exposes participants to a price risk....
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The paper examines a method to attribute hazardous waste streams to regional production and consumption activity, and to connect these same waste streams through to different management options. We argue that a method using an input–output framework provides useful intelligence for decision...
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