Craig Knight, Asia-Pacific Digital Business and Customer Services Manager of Eastman Chemical Company, was given a mandate to sell Eastman’s philosophy for an integrated electronic supply chain, otherwise known as the Integrated System Solution (ISS), to its business partners in the region, and to encourage adoption. Having invested in a state-of-the-art technical architecture that would suppor...

In 1988, Eastman showed that the Euclideanized Berlekamp-Massey (BM) algorithm can be used to eliminate the calculation of discrepancies and the divisions of the finite field elements to find the errata locator polynomial in a Reed-Solomon (RS) decoder. However, the separate computations of the errata locator and the errata evaluator polynomials are still needed in Eastman’s decoder. In this pa...