Global RFID The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Mana
At the same time, I was a junior Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble w- ried about a much more mundane problem: how to keep my products on the shelf. Embedding RFID tags in the products, and RFID readers in the shelf, seemed like the perfect – indeed th
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Edmund W. Schuster Stuart J. Allen David L. Brock
Global RFID The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management
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Edmund W. Schuster Dr. David L. Brock MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave., Rm 35-212 Cambridge, MA 02139 USA edmund [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Stuart J. Allen 7904 60th Drive NE Marysville, WA 98270 USA [email protected]
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII Foreword Who Invented the EPC? by Kevin Ashton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI A Large-Scale Effort by Sanjay Sarma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XV Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXIII
Part I: Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4
The Emergence of a New Key Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Hardware: RFID Tags and Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Infrastructure: EPCglobal Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Data: What, When, and Where? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Part II: Leveraging the Supply Chain: Case Studies Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12
Warehousing: Improving Customer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . Maintenance: Service Parts Inventory Management . . . . . . Pharmaceuticals: Preventing Counterfeits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medical Devices: Smart Healthcare Infrastructure . . . . . . . Agriculture: Animal Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Food: Dynamic Expiration Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Retailing: Theft Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Defense: Imp
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