Global RFID

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVI

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Emergence of a New Key Technology

      Pages 3-14

   3. Hardware: RFID Tags and Readers

      Pages 15-28

   4. Infrastructure: EPCglobal Network

      Pages 29-39

   5. Data: What, When, and Where?

      Pages 41-46

3. Leveraging the Supply Chain: Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Warehousing: Improving Customer Service

      Pages 49-57

   3. Maintenance: Service Parts Inventory Management

      Pages 59-69

   4. Pharmaceuticals: Preventing Counterfeits

      Pages 71-107

   5. Medical Devices: Smart Healthcare Infrastructure

      Pages 109-118

   6. Agriculture: Animal Tracking

      Pages 119-126

   7. Food: Dynamic Expiration Dates

      Pages 127-133

   8. Retailing: Theft Prevention

      Pages 135-158

   9. Defense: Improving Security and Efficiency

      Pages 159-174

4. Creating Business Value

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. The Role of Data in Enterprise Resource Planning

      Pages 177-186

   3. Building a Business Case for the EPCglobal Network

      Pages 187-198

   4. Enhancing Revenue Using the EPC

      Pages 199-227

   5. Outlook: Navigating the Sea of Data

      Pages 229-247

At the same time, I was a junior Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble w- ried about a much more mundane problem: how to keep my products on the shelf. Embedding RFID tags in the products, and RFID readers in the shelf, seemed like the perfect – indeed the only – way to do this. But I needed RFID to be cheaper, better, and standardized in an open system. In early 1999, by sheer chance, I met Brock and Sarma. The result was a potent meeting of minds. I was looking to fund research, and Brock, Sarma and Siu were looking for research funding. Working with Alan Haberman of the Uniform Code Council, one of the founding fathers of the UPC bar code, and Allan Boath of the Gillette C- pany, we developed a plan for a new industry funded research consortium at MIT. Haberman wanted to call it the Center For Automatic Identification And Data Capture. At the last minute I persuaded him to abbreviate it to the Auto-ID Center. But my luck with names is hit and miss: inspired by the bar code, I had the bad idea of calling Auto-ID Center’s technology UPC2. Brock and Sarma saved the day – one of them, I cannot remember which, proposed a far better alternative: EPC, for electronic product code. The Auto-ID Center opened on October 1, 1999. P&G loaned me to MIT to act as Executive Director, and Sunny Siu was the first Research Director.

• CompTIA RFID+
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Internet
• Planning
• business
• communication
• hardware
• management
• productivity
• radio-frequency identification (RFID)
• retail
• supply chain
• supply chain management
• warehou

• MIT, Cambridge, USA

  Edmund W. Schuster, David L. Brock

• Marysville, USA

  Stuart J. Allen

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