Giving organizations the ability to track, secure, and manage items from the time they are raw materials through the life-cycle of the product, radio frequency identification (RFID) makes internal processes more efficient and improves overall supply chain responsiveness. Helping you bring your organization into the future, RFID in the Supply Chain: A Guide to Selection and Implementation explains RFID technology, its applications in SCM, data storage and retrieval, business processes, operational and implementation problems, risks, security and privacy, facility layout, handling systems and methods, and transportation costs. In short, with its soup-to-nuts coverage, the book ensures that your RFID implementation is successful and that you get the most from your investment.
The book discusses the major paradigm shift in product traceability that began with transitioning to RFID technology from bar code technology. It examines the economic feasibility of rolling out RFID and the challenges in supply chain synchronization, customer privacy, security, operations and IT, logistics, program management, education and training, and implementation, as well as what lessons have been learned. The author addresses the RFID business processes needed to analyze and resolve problems the suppliers face when they deal with multiple customers, each with a different mandate, and with their own set of suppliers.
Going beyond the technology and how it has changed supply chain processes, the book includes selection guidelines and implementation examples, such as speed of tag reads versus quality of computer inputs and optimal tag location. The author discusses the implementation of a business process model and the separate but equal concerns that business and IT executives have about the implementation of RFID applications. The book also covers security, integrated control management linked to the corporate strategy, and laws and regulations.

RFID in the Supply Chain: A Guide to Selection and Implementation | Judith M. Myerson (Author) | Auerbach Publications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Supply Chain Overview
Paradigm Shift in Product Traceability, RFID Markets, Economic Feasibility of Rolling out RFID, RFID Technology Infrastructure, Web-Centric Supply Chain Management challenges

Chapter 2: RFID Technology
Primary Drivers, Selection Guideline on Tags, Servers and Middleware, RFID Implementation Examples

Chapter 3: RFID applications in Supply Chain Management
Logistics, Management

Chapter 4: Storing and retrieving data
Two Big Questions, EPC Technology in Functional Areas, Perceptions of Retail Product Benefits, Database CD on Local Workstation, Remote Database Servers, Databases in Company Merger Processes, Hybrid Databases, Web Services

Chapter 5: RFID Business Processes
Business Process Re-engineering, Organizational Maturity, Basic Multi-Layer Business Process Model, Adaptive Multi-Layer Business Process Model, Predictive Multi-Layer Business Process Model, RFID Business Processes Strategies, RFID Enterprise Supply Chain Systems, RFID Business Process Life Cycle

Chapter 6: RFID Security, Privacy and Risk Assessment
Security Policy, Security of RFID Query, Attacks on RFID Technology, Defense in Depth, Risk Assessment

Appendix A: Passive RFID Technology
Appendix B: Active RFID Technology
Appendix C: Semi-Passive RFID Technology
Appendix D: RFID Middleware
Appendix E: Network/Server Interfaces
Appendix F: Physical Markup Language for RFID applications
Appendix G: Warehouse Management Systems
Appendix H: Supply Chain Execution Systems
Appendix I: Enterprise Intelligence: WebFOCUS
Appendix J: Enterprise Databases
Appendix K: Data synchronization: Golden Gate
Appendix L: Partitioning Large Databases: Oracle
Appendix M: Software Engineering Standards
Appendix N: Business Process Automation: IBM Products
Appendix O: Commercial Assessment Tools
Appendix P: Risk Related Software
Appendix Q: Sample security Policy Templates