Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is gaining acceptance in an increasing number of applications for tracking and monitoring purposes. While RFID raises the potential to provide unprecedented visibility in various application domains, data management techniques that are capable of handling massive amounts of data generated by large RFID deployments are still lacking. The sheer vol...

Decision support systems have grown to its best with the emergence of data warehousing. The drastic development of data warehousing is proffering organizations with an influential decision support utility which can possibly be effectively employed to sustain supply chain activities throughout a business or industry. Of late, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has materialized into an eminent...

This paper is an overview of the structure of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems and radio frequency bands used by RFID technology. It also presents a solution based on the application of RFID for brand authentication, traceability and tracking, by implementing a production management system and extending its use to traders. Keywords—Radio Frequency Identification, Tag, Tag reader, T...

Air freight is an important part of the global supply chain. In particular, various high-value electronic products need to be transported efficiently by air freight. Currently, many air freight forwarders still rely on manual operations to process air cargo. These manual operations may affect target service levels due to handling delays and human errors, and result in high operational costs. In...

Purpose Radio frequency identification (RFID) is increasingly being presented as a technology with the potential to improve supply chain performance, but empirical evidence from early adopters is sparse. This paper aims to rectify this scarcity and contribute to a more informed discussion in and between academic and practitioner communities. Design/Methodology/Approach The paper is based on a c...

According to professional journals, Internet information services and consultants, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) seems to be “the new technology hype” which “will revolutionise business performance across supply chains” (Accenture). While low-frequency RFID has been used in some areas in the industrial world for more than a decade (source), the recent decision by Wal-Mart and the U.S. D...

Passive radio frequency identification (RFID) systems deployment efforts are revolutionizing supply chain logistics by providing unprecedented supply chain visibility. The widely used bandwidth of operation in modern systems is the UHF ISM (industrial, scientific, and medical) band. The performance of UHF RFID systems are largely reliant on low power CMOS circuits, efficient power rectification...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been around for more than half a century. It is only in recent years that this technology has begun to attract a lot of attention, due to the convergence of lower cost and increased capabilities of RFID tags. Currently, RFID is emerging as an important technology for revolutionizing a wide range of applications including supply chain management, retail,...

RFID technology and the Electronic Product Code (EPC) network have attracted considerable interest from businesses and academics in recent years. The interest is even stronger in the retail industry where firms such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Tesco, Target and Metro AG are capitalizing on the potential of these technologies. Based on a field study conducted in a three-layer retail supply chain, thi...

In the fields of production, manufacturing and supply chain management, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is regarded as one of the most important technologies. Nowadays, Mobile RFID, which is often installed in carts or forklift trucks, is increasingly being applied to the search for and checkout of items in warehouses, supermarkets, libraries and other industrial fields. In using Mobile R...