Article
RFID in the supply chain: panacea or Pandora's box?
Communications of The ACM
(2008)
Abstract
Managing supply chains effectively is becoming increasingly challenging as outsourcing and offshoring increases, and globalization makes marketplaces more competitive. Supply chain management has emerged as one of the key areas for firms to gain a competitive advantage. For over two decades, information technology (IT) has provided the impetus for more effective supply chain management. In the 1980s, electronic data interchange initiatives enabled firms to deal more effectively with suppliers. In the 1990s, supply chain innovations such as vendor-managed and co-managed inventory and configure-to-order supply chains would have been impossible without IT. Today, it is widely believed that the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology will enable substantive supply chain transformations.
Keywords
- Supply chain,
- RFID
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 1, 2008
DOI
10.1145/1400181.1400209
Citation Information
Brian L. Dos Santos and Lars S. Smith. "RFID in the supply chain: panacea or Pandora's box?" Communications of The ACM Vol. 51 Iss. 10 (2008) p. 127 - 131 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lars_smith/8/