Title:
An
Organizational View of the Impact of RFID on Supply Chain Partners
Abstract: The
idea of automatically collecting information pertaining to individual items
and tracing their mobility through their entire life process sounds promising
to supply chain partners. Most of the recent attempts at adoption of RFID
technologies in supply chains have been technology driven and pushed by one
focus partner. The generally accepted view is for each partner to be able
to economically rationalise the time consuming and expensive process of adoption
of these technologies. The suggested case here is a partial view of inventory
processing in a retail store with suppliers who have already adopted the
technology in response to mandates by other partners in other chains. The
study uses both micro and macro level analysis to examine the possible benefits
of RFID adoption in this particular case.
Author: Nasrin Rahmati