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RFID and the Internet of Things: Technology, Applications, and Security Challenges
Evdokimov, Sergei; Fabian, Benjamin; Günther, Oliver; … - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Technology, Information … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 105-185
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has started to exert a major influence on modern supply chain management. In … manufacturing, RFID changes the way objects are tracked on the shop floor and how manufactured goods interact with the production … environment. In logistics, RFID is used to track and trace pallets or individual objects on a global scale. In retail, RFID is …
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A delayed demand supply chain: Incentives for upstream players
Hosoda, Takamichi; Disney, Stephen M. - In: Omega 40 (2012) 4, pp. 478-487
We study a decentralized supply chain where only delayed market demand information is available for making replenishment decisions. The impact of this delay is quantified in a serially linked two-level supply chain where each player exploits the order-up-to replenishment policy. The market...
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RFID-generated traceability for contaminated product recall in perishable food supply networks
Piramuthu, Selwyn; Farahani, Poorya; Grunow, Martin - In: European Journal of Operational Research 225 (2013) 2, pp. 253-262
As perishable food supply networks become more complex, incidents of contamination in these supply networks have become fairly common. Added to this complexity is the fact that there have been long delays in identifying the contamination source in several such incidents. Even when the...
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Comparing improvement strategies for inventory inaccuracy in a two-echelon supply chain
Xu, Jinpeng; Jiang, Wei; Feng, Gengzhong; Tian, Jun - In: European Journal of Operational Research 221 (2012) 1, pp. 213-221
; 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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Swallowing the RFId pill: the redesign of a pharmaceutical wholesaler supply chain
Miragliotta, Giovanni; Perego, Alessandro; Tumino, Angela - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 2 (2010) 3, pp. 198-216
Radio frequency identification (RFId) technology promises to offer both a more efficient and accurate tracking and … pharmaceutical goods, presents an activity-based model to evaluate the costs and benefits that stem from the adoption of RFId at the …
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A study of radio frequency identification adoption in the wine industry supply chain
Sellitto, Carmine - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 1 (2009) 2, pp. 214-227
This article reports on the perceived benefits associated with the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID …) technology by the wine industry. RFID is an emerging innovation that potentially enables the tracking of all items across the … in the industry could be highly valuable. A review of the scholarly literature indicates that RFID technology appears to …
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Sustaining competitive advantage in social entrepreneurship - a case study
Mohapatra, Sanjay; Srivastava, Neha - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 4 (2012) 3, pp. 197-220
This is a study on sustainability of competitive advantage in social entrepreneurship in a developing country like India. To maintain competitive advantage, a social entrepreneur has to reduce his cost of operations while providing value propositions to all stake holders in the supply chain. By...
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Business integration between manufacturing and transport-logistics firms
Mortensen, Ole; Lemoine, Olga W. - Ehrvervøkonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2006
Purpose - This paper analyses how manufacturers and transport-logistics service providers (TLSPs) work together and integrate their business processes. The information technologies used to support the integration, the processes currently integrated, and the expected future integration, are...
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Applying RFID in warehouse operations of an Italian courier express company
Pacciarelli, Dario; Andrea D’Ariano; Scotto, Michele - In: Netnomics 12 (2011) 3, pp. 209-222
management process. This study considers the use of RFID tags to facilitate identifying items in a package delivery service … to the operations handbook. In a second phase, we introduce radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies in the … configuration of the warehouse and of the RFID-based package management process is obtained by a non-linear optimization model that …
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Using Survey Data to Design a RFID Centric Service System for Hospitals
Mogre, Riccardo; Gadh, Rajit; Chattopadhyay, Arunabh - In: Service Science 1 (2009) 3, pp. 189-206
Information Technology, and especially RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) allow hospitals to re-engineer their processes in … element of the service itself; therefore a service design approach is believed to improve the adoption rate of RFID in … hospitals. The main goal of the present study is to propose an RFID based service platform for hospitals, which is consistent …
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