Chapter 2.8: Technologies for Supply Chain Management Flashcards
What is involved when extranets are used to coordinate and manage supply chains?
Electronic data interchange (EDI)
What is EDI?
Electronic data interchange
a generic term that refers to the structured exchange of data between organisations using information technology
What is RFID? What is its alternative name?
Radio frequency identification
so called ‘automatic identification technology’
- permits the identification of items without direct human intervention
What is the advantages of RFID over bad coding technology? 5 advantages
- reduce about costs
- better intelligence (larger amount of data can be stored)
- tags increase inventory visibility and increase response times to customer demands and market trends
- easy recall (locate and remove faulty goods quickly)
- facilitates item-level tracking
Explain item-level tracking and its benefits
tags are stored in each individual product instead of pallet of case-level
Benefits:
- increased intelligence
- theft detection
- stock monitoring
- product customisation
Limitations of item-level tracking
- RFID tags can be expensive
- millions of products moving along the supply chain at any given time
- reliability (metals can interfere radio frequencies)
What technology is similar to RFID and what is the difference?
Rubee uses magnetic signals, enabling it to transmit data through both metal and liquid.
Advantages of Rubee
useful for harsh environments where RFID often fails
- warehouses with lots of metal structures
Disadvantages of Rubee
- slow data transmission speeds and small packet sizes
- unsuitable for environment with rapidly moving products
What software technology that is particularly important to large organisations, both internally and for communicating along the supply chain?
enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
