The Integration Engineer
When it just has to work.

If you are tracking inventory, or transactions, you need to get data about the whereabouts of the things you are tracking.  In this instance, more data is better.  I found this video on YouTube where Sanjay Sarma from MIT gives a lecture on Supply Chain Management and using RFID technology.

Whether we are integrating the data gathered from RFID tracking, or using the techniques in our tracking of data transactions, the benefit is the same; A more robust, and flexible set of data and better issue resolution work flow. (more…)

I found this video on youTube.

Professor Mansour Javidan, Ph.D talks about supply chain considerations using blue jeans as a case study.  This clip is 3 minutes long.

Professor Javidan gives an amusing illustration of some of the challenges that can occur in supply chain integration.  9 different countries, currencies, cultures to get Blue Jeans to your store.  Each of these will have orders and payments that flow between companies, and across boarders. (more…)