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A 10 page paper discussing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in terms of Wal-Mart's supply chain. It is not yet cost effective to use RFID tags at the item level, but that is Wal-Mart's goal, one shared by other retailers. Though it enables a degree of automation that has enabled organizations such as Wal-Mart to save on operating costs by being able to operate more efficiently, the bar code still requires a line of sight in order to be read. It requires physical handling by a human, which always increases costs. RFID tags increasingly are linked to network-resident information rather than carrying their own information. This is seen as bringing down the cost within two or three years so that it will be cost effective to use RFID at the item level. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSsupChnRFID.rtf
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are tiny, miniscule microchips that promise to reshape and revolutionize supply chain management. One reporter writes that the "emerging technology could usurp the ubiquitous bar codes quarter-century of quiet
domination" (Mayfield, 2002). Supply chain management is an issue of paramount importance in the continued globalization of business, particularly as it continues to move into the electronic environment. Supply
Chain Management As all aspects of business have become increasingly competitive over the past several years, organizations have been obliged to search for
ever-increasingly creative ways to optimize their activities and operate as efficiently as possible. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, that end was achieved through downsizing as manufacturing continued
to seek to become more efficient in producing its goods. Productivity gains assisted in increasing efficiency after that, while James Champy advocated "blowing up" all existing business systems and
starting fresh in proposing reengineering for all existing businesses that had reached cumbersome size. As businesses continue to search for other efficiencies that
have been overlooked, virtually all have turned to streamlining their supply chain management. One supply chain executive commented that logistics formerly was the place incompetents were sent after having
proven they could handle nothing else. Today, logistics is growing up and has a new name to distinguish it from its former position as a necessary but nearly trivial
aspect of business operation. The Internet is playing an increasingly central role in many organizations quest for efficient supply chain management (SCM), but
the relatively young age of both the concept of SCM and the Internet has served to place the combination of the two in the position of finding the right integration
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