| Can you imagine 100% visibility of product in a Supply | | | | the energy through tag’s antenna and transmits |
| Chain with RFID tags to whole warehouse? RFID is | | | | the data in the form of energy back. The main |
| major advancement in supply chain management. | | | | reason of widely used passive tags is its low cost. |
| Although large range of applications supported by the | | | | Active tag uses own power supplies mostly battery |
| radio-frequency identification technology, now supply | | | | and transmit data to the reader. Battery is also used |
| chain management is on its focus. RFID is taught as | | | | with other devices. For e.g. Active tags may be used |
| the ultimate Supply Chain solution that will drive | | | | with some kind of unpreserved goods that have |
| millions if not billions of savings throughout the supply | | | | thermometers to ensure the goods are kept at an |
| chain and other areas. The question in the air is: Does | | | | acceptable temperature. |
| RFID really has this “healing” power? From | | | | It is very difficult to standardize the encoding |
| the ordinary process, such as moving goods through | | | | information on RFID intelligent tags for supply chain |
| loading docks, to the complex, such as managing | | | | management for bar codes. |
| huge amount of data as information about goods is | | | | The standards for basic product information are |
| collected in real time makes RFID as an ultimate | | | | encoded in RFID chips and standard to manage UPC |
| supply chain solution. | | | | information in bar codes are presented by EPCglobal |
| The way we handle products in the Supply Chain will | | | | Inc. |
| radically change the transformational RFID technology. | | | | The entire standard for information passing from |
| It brings transparency in supply chain by cut | | | | RFID readers to other applications and from |
| out-of-stocks, counterfeit and shrinkage. Manpower | | | | application to application, in supply chain are |
| savings is one of the most important features of the | | | | established by EPCglobal. |
| RFID supply chain management system. It is flexible | | | | These standards become useful when goods are ship |
| for all kind of applications; range will grow when RFID | | | | from one company to company in terms of |
| combined with other sensors. | | | | electronic transaction that will occur in between |
| Initially RFID is used to manage the large amount of | | | | organization’s enterprise resource planning |
| goods like pallet and cartoon labels, identification. So | | | | systems. These standards maintain every time when |
| RFID tags must have unique serial identifier for each | | | | middleware handles data scanned by an RFID reader |
| batch of the product at the lading time, on the bill. It | | | | as goods enter a warehouse and will pass the data |
| makes the less possibility of redundant data entry by | | | | to an enterprise application. |
| scanning the RFID tag. The reason is RFID tag reader | | | | On the other hand it includes costs to the supply |
| can scan many tags during a 1-second period. | | | | chain. But the investment in front of good ROI is not |
| There are 2 types of RFID tags: passive and active. | | | | matter in case of RFID solutions. |
| When reader reads the passive tag, Reader received | | | | |