Global RFID: The Value of the EPCglobal Network for Supply Chain Management / Edition 1

by Edmund W. Schuster, Stuart J. Allen, David L. Brock

Overview

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 the only – way to do this. But I needed RFID to be cheaper, better, and standardized in an open system. In early 1999, by sheer chance, I met Brock and Sarma. The result was a potent meeting of minds. I was looking to fund research, and Brock, Sarma and Siu were looking for research funding. Working with Alan Haberman of the Uniform Code Council, one of the founding fathers of the UPC bar code, and Allan Boath of the Gillette C- pany, we developed a plan for a new industry funded research consortium at MIT. Haberman wanted to call it the Center For Automatic Identification And Data Capture. At the last minute I persuaded him to abbreviate it to the Auto-ID Center. But my luck with names is hit and miss: inspired by the bar code, I had the bad idea of calling Auto-ID Center’s technology UPC2. Brock and Sarma saved the day – one of them, I cannot remember which, proposed a far better alternative: EPC, for electronic product code. The Auto-ID Center opened on October 1, 1999. P&G loaned me to MIT to act as Executive Director, and Sunny Siu was the first Research Director.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540356547
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	02/01/2007
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

The Emergence of a New Key Technology.- Hardware: RFID Tags and Readers.- Infrastructure: EPCglobal Network.- Data: What, When, and Where?.- Leveraging the Supply Chain: Case Studies.- 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: Improving Security and Efficiency.- Creating Business Value.- The Role of Data in Enterprise Resource Planning.- Building a Business Case for the EPCglobal Network.- Enhancing Revenue Using the EPC.- Outlook: Navigating the Sea of Data.

Editorial Reviews

Aus den Rezensionen:

"… Ein inhaltlicher Schwerpunkt liegt … auf dem Potenzial von RFID für die Prozesskette, welches anhand von Fallbeispielen anschaulich erläutert wird. Das … umfassende Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick mit Praxisbezug. Die Detailkenntnis der Autoren ist ein weiterer Pluspunkt …"

(in: RFID Newsletter, 2007, Issue 2, S. 12)

Aus den Rezensionen:

"… Dem Autorenteam ist es gelungen, neue Auffassungen über das Management von Lieferketten zu entwickeln. Lobenswert ist der pragmatische Ansatz, diese direkt aus konkreten Fallstudien abzuleiten."

(in: IT-Mittelstand, 2007, Issue 4, S. 66)

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