Supply Chain Management And Tracking Persistence And Different Industries

Lately Conner and Martin have been working with “radio frequency identification” (RFID) technology. They have developed a detailed system designed to track inventory items using RFID tags embedded invisibly in products. This technology has numerous inventory

Given the facts in the case and as outlined in more detail in this case study, it is our recommendation that Mierdorf and Wolfram move to the case level RFID tagging process. The improvements up and down the supply chain in accuracy, inventory control, reduced labor costs are enough to at least continue with the RFID

RFID systems are currently being used in manufacturing plants to track parts, stay informed of work in progress, reduce product defects, increase throughput, and manage production of given products. Big name retailers such as Best Buy, Metro, Target, Albertson’s, Hewlett Packard, and Wal-Mart are leading the way in implementing RFID systems. These retailers recognize the need to improve inventory efficiency, ensure products are available to customers as needed, decrease theft, and cut down on costs associated with tracking and processing inventory.

However, it is important to mention about an active RFID technology in order to understand why it is not suitable for the case of the production in-house logistics. Active system provides constant visibility of inventory, they are placed in the zones wherever inventory needs to

PRADA has long been adopted management information systems into most of their business part including manufacturing, sales, and human resource management. PRADA has Group information technology director who primarily responsible for the management of the Group’s information technology system. In 2000s, by using radio frequency identification (RFID), PRADA tried to controls manufacturing system, inventory, warehousing, distribution, logistics, automatic object tracking and supply chain management. What PRADA expected from RFID technologies were improve the potential benefits of supply chain management through reduction of inventory losses, increase of the efficiency and speed of

In order to clarify what savings RFID can provide for an organisation currently utilizing outdated, inefficient  logistics technologies, these time savings should be used, along with some general assumptions, to  project  indicative cost savings.  To facilitate analysis of the labour cost savings associated to implementing RFID processes to an asset tracking  context, the life cycle of a typical asset is considered.  The different types of assets and their individual  characteristics are ignored to simplify the analysis.  In order for this document to provide useful figures for a wider range of customers, a basic logistics department  with varying asset levels and traffic will be analysed. Some general assumptions are listed:   Average warehouse worker works a 38 hour week and earns a $60,000AU salary.    Number of assets to be tracked:  o 10,000  o 20,000  o 50,000  o 100,000   Each tagged asset follows an assumed asset life cycle. Numbers of reads associated to each task:  o Asset Life – 3 years  o Initial Deployment of Asset:   Manufacturer applies RFID tag to asset   Received to Warehouse Stock   2 reads – 1 read into warehouse door, 1 read onto correct shelf/area   Distribution to a Particular Building/Floor   2 reads – 1 read out of warehouse

There are two major hardware components that help RFID to work: Tag and Reader. The two devices have an asymmetric relationship in that the tag is simple and offers few facilities besides holding and transmitting the code, while the reader takes the leading role at the cost of higher complexity. RFID tags store information about the item they are attached to. Information generally pertains to identification information; supply-chain information such as attributes, source, destination, and route; and possibly other special parameters. In business model, RFID tags provide the capability for seamless and continuous two ways communication as an object moves through a supply chain. This means that any object bearing a tag can become networked without human intervention or manipulation by automated machines, as is the case with bar codes. Most of the time, the tag is placed on

In the last decade RFID has gained popularity in the logistics and supply chain management fields. Many warehouses are taking into consideration the adoption of RFID to reduce the operating cost against the requirement to build an automatic warehouse and labour intensive manual checking. For warehousing the parameters include communication range, amount of transmittable data, communication time and speed of tag communication. The communication range is the distance within which the reader can transmit or receive data to the tag. Beyond this range the items become undetectable. The amount of data that is transmitted between the tag and reader affects the performance in terms of transmission time and accuracy. The communication time also impacts the performance of the RFID system. There is a choke point which is the fixed reader and the RFID is constrained to a maximum travel velocity when passing the fixed reader location. When travelling beyond this speed the accuracy to read is very close to zero. So when greater volume of data is passing the tag will have to essentially pass the reader more slowly for an accurate read, especially in warehouses.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has become widely accepted as an instrumental tool in supply chain management. In addition to being a replacement for barcoding technology, RFID provides real time information, making the supply chain considerably more precise and improving the overall efficiency and reliability of the entire chain, including administration and planning activities.

In recent years, Third Party Logistics (3PL) service providers play a very important role in a supply chain of an organization. A brief literature review is given in this section of the paper. Tate (1996) identified seven factors (compatibility, deep understanding of a partner's business needs, open communications, commitment, fairness, flexibility, and trust) that improved long- term relationship between 3PL and their customers. Logan (2000) used agency theory to help in bonding 3PL/customers relationships. It is postulated that, cost reduction and services improvement criteria are most expected by clients to avoid conflicts with their 3PL. Fawcett and Smith (1995) identified five criteria’s to evaluate the 3PL performance,

The Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry ( FMCG ) is one of the most top industries served by the third party logistics. The FMCG firms utilize the services that are provided by 3PL. The impact of Third Party Logistics on FMCG firms are on customer satisfaction, logistics system performance, the impact of 3PL also reduce the capital investment in facilities, reduction in investment in information technology, reduction in man power cost. The third party logistics also impact on the improvement of specific logistics function parameters, and improvement in inventory turnover rates. The 3PL has a positive and negative impact on FMCG

The ascent of new advances, for instance, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and remote frameworks, makes the ordinary retail frames speedier, clear and capable. The advancement addresses retailers an opportunity to improve organizations, allowing to go to clients quickly, precisely and supplying tweaked organizations.In our RFID beneficiary end we store all information of things with the RFID mark code. Exactly when a thing who 's having RFID tag with it is come in extent of beneficiary our structure bring code from RFID card and thereafter check information set away with it and showcase same on LCD. In case RFID tag having no section in our structure then it will show thing not enlisted in store.

Auto Identification techniques and Warehouse Management systems (WMS) are playing a crucial role in success of supply chains like retail, e-commerce, auto-industry, manufacturing etc. by reducing the transaction process time, efficient inventory control, security and tracking. Barcodes is the most widely used Auto-identification techniques. Recently RFID has gain importance in tracking the objects, paper less good receipts. With major application focus on inventory tracking, security access control, implementation of Auto-ids, replenishment systems, smooth dispatching and integration through ERPs Warehousing Management systems gaining success in reducing the lead time.

The advantage of RFID is that it does not require direct contact or line-of-sight scanning. An RFID system consists of three components: an antenna, RFID reader and a RFID tag (Known as transponder). The antenna emits radio frequency waves to transmit a signal that activates tag and in return a response signal is received.()Problem statement:Packaging industries using RFID technology may face the problem of missing the item count of products during processing due to different product characteristics such as chemical composition, density etc. This research paper examines the use of RFID in packaging industry where the items are of different particulate solids of different packing densities. This is important in supply chain because transportation can change the product 's physical characteristics. In this paper particle shape, size and packing density are investigated to determine its effects on RFID tag readability. Particle size is considered as an important characteristic since it effects the properties such as surface per unit volume and rate of settling of particles. The shape of the particle may have an effect on packing characteristics.Equipment and Methodology:Equipment:Equipment used in this research are the rectangular standardized cell of size 6in x 10in x 1.25 is fabricated using 0.25in thick Lexan material

Following the paradigm shift on the role of logistics management in the recent decades, there has been a wide recognition of this as a very important aspect a business strategy in general. However due to the numerous factors promoting complexity of logistics management companies have adopted the idea of outsourcing their logistic activities to Third Party Logistics (3PL) providers. Hence, 3PLs have taken a critical role towards supply chains of heir customers.