“B-to-B E-Commerce: Assessing the Impacts of RFID Technology in a Five Layer Supply Chain” is a research paper written by Ygal Bendavid, Elisabeth Lefebvre, Louis A. Lefebvre, and Samuel Fosso Wamba École Polytechnique de Montréal. This paper focus is to track the key performance marks to measure the effects of RFID technology in a five-layer supply chain management system for the utility sector. While the main objective is to expand, the reader understanding of the possible effects of RFID technology with dealing with supply chain. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to mechanically recognize and track tags attached to items. Some believe that RFID is to be well-thought-out the next big thing in supply chain management. While other don’t believe this theory because there’s not a model to test the benefit and impact of RFID. RFID can potentially be the disruptor in supply chain. RFID does not only contain a chip, but also an antenna as well. The antenna is use to send and take in data; also, the antenna has the capability to use frequency to communicate with different tags. Finally, middleware that control, strainers, sums and direct the capture data. RFID have been a trending topic for different fields such as revolution management and possible courses for acceptance, operation, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management, and research papers in supply chain management. Unfortunate RFID has barriers that stop RFID to progress further. RFID barriers: • Technology limitations • Moderately high costs associated with hardware, software, systems arrangement and combination, and training, • Security problems • Absence of skill RFIP effect on supply chain management can be categorizes into three different types: conceptual, simulation and field studies.
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Conceptual can defines both benefits and limitations. Conceptual propose that RFID may simplify the growth of developing supply chain arrangement by portraying as a helper for a build-to-order supply chain management strategy. Conceptual reflect RFID as a method that empowers smart supply and demand chain enabling teamwork practices such as collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment. Several mathematical and simulation models have been used to measure the effect of RFID on supply chain performance. For example, in a manufacturer supply chain atmospheres, the benefits of using RFID is inventory deceasing while service level increasing. The author the potential improvement RFID can have on restocking inventory. The author notice at least six cost-benefit model that can use while using RFID. Field studies have shown that RFID have led to an increase in sale by at least 23% while decreasing out of stock items by 14 % and store space by 11%. Evaluating and performance markers are needed to test the possibility of strategies and without it will make goal recognition tough to obtain. The KPIs such as inventory, the degree of service, stock, and store space are used to test the ability of RFID in supply chain. Although these things offer useful information about RFID in supply chain, but it does not proposal a general outline. However, there are some outlines that can be used for this matter. One of the outline is founded transactional efficiency and the other is founded on relationship management. The authors acknowledged five supply chain management outlines that identify the need to implement business developments. They have carefully chosen the Supply Chain Operation Reference Model and the Global Supply Chain Forum framework which include business developments that could be used by management to accomplish cross functional integration and cross organizational integration. The utility sector is facing a huge change that haven’t been heard on since the 1900s. Since the sector is now facing revenue stream issues, they are force to look for ways to decrease unnecessary cost by discovering new …show more content…
In phase one opportunities are sought by exploring inspiration, measuring product value chain and plotting the intra- and inter-business procedures while the possible of RFID technology is measured in phase two. Also, in phase two the test is replicated to make one last decision for the test study which is confirmed in the lab. In phase 3, supply chain test is run with RFID technology. While in the testing state, the products go through the RFID gateways, tags, and information are taken in the middleware and the matching operation are transported into ERP. When the products are shipped the information that was taken are updated in the
Conceptual can defines both benefits and limitations. Conceptual propose that RFID may simplify the growth of developing supply chain arrangement by portraying as a helper for a build-to-order supply chain management strategy. Conceptual reflect RFID as a method that empowers smart supply and demand chain enabling teamwork practices such as collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment. Several mathematical and simulation models have been used to measure the effect of RFID on supply chain performance. For example, in a manufacturer supply chain atmospheres, the benefits of using RFID is inventory deceasing while service level increasing. The author the potential improvement RFID can have on restocking inventory. The author notice at least six cost-benefit model that can use while using RFID. Field studies have shown that RFID have led to an increase in sale by at least 23% while decreasing out of stock items by 14 % and store space by 11%. Evaluating and performance markers are needed to test the possibility of strategies and without it will make goal recognition tough to obtain. The KPIs such as inventory, the degree of service, stock, and store space are used to test the ability of RFID in supply chain. Although these things offer useful information about RFID in supply chain, but it does not proposal a general outline. However, there are some outlines that can be used for this matter. One of the outline is founded transactional efficiency and the other is founded on relationship management. The authors acknowledged five supply chain management outlines that identify the need to implement business developments. They have carefully chosen the Supply Chain Operation Reference Model and the Global Supply Chain Forum framework which include business developments that could be used by management to accomplish cross functional integration and cross organizational integration. The utility sector is facing a huge change that haven’t been heard on since the 1900s. Since the sector is now facing revenue stream issues, they are force to look for ways to decrease unnecessary cost by discovering new …show more content…
In phase one opportunities are sought by exploring inspiration, measuring product value chain and plotting the intra- and inter-business procedures while the possible of RFID technology is measured in phase two. Also, in phase two the test is replicated to make one last decision for the test study which is confirmed in the lab. In phase 3, supply chain test is run with RFID technology. While in the testing state, the products go through the RFID gateways, tags, and information are taken in the middleware and the matching operation are transported into ERP. When the products are shipped the information that was taken are updated in the