RFID Supply Chain Managment
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.
I was particularly impressed with Sanjay’s comments around the challenges of phantom inventory caused by missed reads of RFID tags. Sanjay mentions that this could be mitigated by using multiple read points.
This is similar to techniques that I have built in the past, but without putting a name to them. Building a BPM process that expected some of the metric points to be lost, and to be able to fill them in when subsequent point are met allows for a more flexible and rapid system.
This is a bit long, at 42 minutes, but is still interesting. He spends most of his time using retail based examples, but the concepts are equally applicable to all areas of RFID inventory control, and supply chain managment.
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December 15th, 2009 at 8:21 am
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