A systematic literature review on the benefit-drivers of RFID implementation in supply chains and its impact on organizational competitive advantage

Abstract

Application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in managing supply chains has witnessed significant interest in recent years. However, the current understanding of the potential benefits that act as the motivating factors/drivers in implementing RFID technology (benefit-drivers), its link to competitive advantage, is fragmented and scattered across the literature. This formed the motivation of this study which seeks to address this gap in the literature through a systematic literature review. Based on a rigorous screening of the literature (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018), the study develops a comprehensive understanding of the various 1) corporate-driven and 2) customer-driven benefit-drivers from RFID implementation. The "2 C" categorization of benefit-drivers is novel and should provide more impetus for practitioners to leverage from RFID implementation. Further, the link between the benefit-drivers and competitive advantage is understood and proposed in the form of a conceptual framework. Finally, avenues for future research are highlighted. The study findings and the framework provide a good starting point for academics and practitioners to further explore the opportunities in supply chain afforded by RFID ABOUT THE AUTHORS Janya Chanchaichujit is an Assistant Professor in Logistics Management in the School of Management at Walailak University in Thailand. Dr. Chanchaichujit has over twenty years industrial, project consultancy and academic work experience. Her research interest focuses on incorporating various aspects of operational research applications, and technologies into the design and operation of sustainable supply chain management.

Availability of an RFID Object-Identification System in IoT Environments

“…The first type of analysis performed over the presented models showed the relationship between the number of frames that might be needed to identify the RFID tags versus the number of tags in the system ( Figure 15 ). Results from Figure 15 were obtained by performing an SPN stationary simulation over the model from Figure 8 within the following parameters: confidence level of 95%; maximal relative error of 3%; batch size of 10,000; Nt domain was set to [ 1 , 5 ]. …”

“…Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is increasingly common around us, being used in package identification, healthcare, supply-chain management, controlling access within a building, and detecting objects or a person’s location during context build [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. From a system point of view, an RFID network consists of RFID tags, antenna, and reader, and the software component responsible with managing the information.…”

“…From a system point of view, an RFID network consists of RFID tags, antenna, and reader, and the software component responsible with managing the information. The RFID reader retrieves data from the RFID tags and passes them over to the managing software for storage and interpretation [ 5 , 8 , 9 ]. What sets RFID technology apart from other wireless technologies is the simplicity of producing the tags, which can be active or passive [ 9 ].…”

“…For example, image processing can be very useful in monitoring patients taking their medication [ 15 ]. However, RFID can be very useful in monitoring the type of drug that was taken by placing RFID tags on medicine bottles [ 5 , 6 , 15 ], thus helping to increase confidence in the obtained identification results.…”

Self- Checkout Service with RFID Technology in Supermarket

“…Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) is a new technology that uses radio waves to read and capture the information stored on the RFID tag carried by the object to identify and track the object. [18] The RFID system consists of 3 parts: (1) RFID tag, a microchip that can be embedded in physical products for storing and processing information, which contains a specific serial number (2) reader and its antenna, can receive and send signals to read the information on the RFID tag, such as serial number, location, color, date of purchase and so on. (3) Data processing system, to gather and filter all RFID tag data, then communicate with other supply chain information systems.…”