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Achieving Total
Supply Chain Visibility with RFID
December 12, 2006
As the cost of tags and readers continues to fall, system
integration and data analytics are emerging as the top challenges in
achieving total supply chain visibility with RFID.
Boston -- A new Aberdeen Group report that dissects the supply chain
finds that the objectives, opportunities, and best-in-class RFID
solutions change as product travels from one organization to the next
in the chain. This creates disparity among partner organizations and
the danger that individuals will develop solutions that do not lend
themselves to collaborative leveraging of the technology across
enterprises. It also creates an opportunity for a new class of vendor
who provides solutions suitable to every stage of the supply chain. |
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In "Total
Supply Chain Visibility," Aberdeen Group reveals that RFID costs a
distribution company nearly 30% more than it costs a manufacturer and
more than twice what the average retailer spends. It is a rare
technology that can address the myriad objectives and constraints of a
cross-enterprise RFID initiative. However, the right flavor of the
technology to address each of the business challenges, collecting data
at key choke points, making use of that data to enable visibility, and
informing business analytics applications, can make collaboration
among organizations seamless.
According to the report, each supply chain company approaches the
challenge with a different set of primary objectives, and each has its
own expectations for the time it takes to realize positive ROI.
Individual companies looking to multiple sources for ROI will find the
time to positive ROI shorter, and the same is true across enterprises.
When partners collaborate to develop compatible and complementary
solution sets, everyone in the chain achieves positive ROI in less
time.
"Achieving total supply chain visibility is still an elusive goal for
most enterprises, even those with mature RFID initiatives," says Russ
Klein, Research Director for Aberdeen Group's Enabling Technology
practice. "The report finds firms that involve partners in design and
implementation encounter fewer roadblocks on their way to total
visibility."
The research, underwritten by Acsis, Reva, and Zebra, shows readers
best practices of RFID applications in the supply chain and ways to
justify the investment. This report is valued at $399; however, for a
limited time a complimentary copy is available, by following this
link: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=3672
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delivers demonstrable results. Having benchmarked more than 30,000
companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to
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