Wireless product identification: enabler for handling efficiency, customisation and information sharing
- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Emerald in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal
- Vol. 7 (4), 242-252
- https://doi.org/10.1108/13598540210438971
Abstract
More sophisticated customer demand chains and electronic business pose new challenges to supply chain management. Delivery sizes decrease as a result of more deliveries directly to the point of use. Customers are demanding products and deliveries customised to their specific needs. Also, the information concerning small, customised deliveries has to be shared in volatile supply networks. This article analyses the opportunities of wireless product identification technology in transforming supply chain management. A new concept of item level supply chain management and enabling steps to achieve the benefits are proposed. Innovative companies already use wireless product identification with great benefits in specific functional areas, e.g. manufacturing and warehousing. However, the biggest potential is in supply chain wide solutions, i.e. item level supply chain management.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- E‐supply chains – virtually non‐existingSupply Chain Management: An International Journal, 2001
- Insights from a logistics partnershipSupply Chain Management: An International Journal, 2001
- Electronic Data Capture and Operational Performance Monitoring: A Supply Chain PerspectiveInternational Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2000
- Understanding Digital Technology’s Evolution and the Path of Measured Productivity Growth: Present and Future in the Mirror of the PastPublished by MIT Press ,2000
- Viewpoint: reaching the consumer through e‐grocery VMIInternational Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, 2000
- New Service Opportunities in the E‐grocery BusinessThe International Journal of Logistics Management, 2000
- Two-Dimensional Bar Code as a Medium for Electronic Data InterchangeInternational Journal of Electronic Commerce, 1998
- RFID enhances materials handlingSensor Review, 1995
- Supertag—stock counting off its trolleySensor Review, 1994