RFID in the Supply Chain - Guide to Sele - Size

Strategy
Management
Business processes
Techniques
Visibility and speed
Figure 1.3 Supply Chain Management Conceptual Model
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business processes in the third layer. What business processes to use and
implement largely depends on what management philosophy and style is
used to run the supply chain organization.
For instance, if the organization favors participative management, then
we have a set of business processes that the participants and stakeholders
are more inclined to accept collaboratively. On the other hand, if the
organization chooses another type of management style, then we have a
different set of business processes that may take a different set of participants
and stakeholders a longer or shorter time to accept. Whatever the
business processes and associated management philosophy are, the strategy
must be spelled out clearly to help in translating the philosophy into business
processes (and other actions to be taken by managers and other
decision makers) in various parts of the supply chain organization.
Associated with SCM is the SCP [1] with RFID technology that involves
the collaboration of demand and supply using the RFID infrastructure to track
multiple products at various points in the supply chain for delivery of the
items to satisfy the demands of multiple customers. It often is involved with
planning network planning, capacity planning, demand planning, manufacturing
resources, scheduling, distribution, and deployment resources.
More important is the forecasting of demand and supply changes while
the executives are involved with managers on planning production. SCP is
concerned with creating a set of suppliers in response to buyer forecasts,
and with coordinating RFID technology assets to optimize the delivery of
products in order to balance demand and supply at a given point of time.
Let’s take a quick look at SCE, SCO, SCV, and SCPM. SCE [1] provides a
framework of applications that enable procurement and supply of products
through the RFID technology infrastructure integrated with the enterprise integration
hub of SCM systems, ERP systems, virtualized databases, legacy systems,