By Sameer Kumar
Swift time-to-market expectancies and the call for for custom-tailored items current actual demanding situations for the inflexible and stuck linear provide chains that compete in cutting-edge financial system. Connective applied sciences meet those demanding situations head on by way of integrating the mandatory 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 presents strategic frameworks, conceptual and analytical versions, and case reviews that target the layout, improvement, and implementation of those applied sciences as they pertain to the administration of engineering and production operations. putting specific emphasis on RFID, the ebook addresses concerns that come with these related to GPS, stock administration, quality controls, cellular know-how, and defense demanding situations. The ebook offers an outline of RFID purposes, its underlying strategies and rules, 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 provide chain administration method. Connective applied sciences within the provide Chain is a necessary source when you wish to extend their wisdom of-and bring up their good fortune with-these functions.
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Fm Page 36 Thursday, January 4, 2007 1:49 PM 36 Ⅲ Connective Technologies in the Supply Chain clear understanding of the overall cost and benefits of implementing RFID at the beginning will help improve the success rate. For example, enterprises do not want to end up investing in a technology that will cost them further to maintain, with very little return. At which particular point in a supply chain will an RFID be applicable is a vital question to be answered during the planning stage. An operational analysis of the supply chain could reveal the action point in a chain and the relevant data to be tagged.
Although the RFID tag could withstand, say, very high or very low temperature, in the tough environment, storage and transfer locations of the products and assets to be tagged should be scrutinized to provide a complete understanding of the “stretch” to be performed by the tag. The data stored in the tag will be transferred in real-time to the ICT infrastructure or enterprise systems of the enterprise. Hence, it is essential that the ICT infrastructure capability and expansion potential are analyzed when considering the application of RFID.
However, intelligent bar coding has emerged in the form of RFID, which is increasingly applied for supply chain management. According to Kevin Ashton, executive director and cofounder of the Auto-ID Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology and associate director of Procter & Gamble, to a surprising extent, business operates today on information that has the quality of myths. The arrival of RFID will, in effect, turn on the lights and identify what is really happening. It could eventually mean a whole new way of doing business (IBM, 2004a).