Challenges to Global RFID Adoption

Improving RFID adoption in Taiwan's healthcare industry based on a DEMATEL technique with a hybrid MCDM model

“…Once goods have RFID tags attached, their whereabouts can be tracked automatically by radio readers. With applications in transportation payments, asset management, retail sales, and item tracking, RFID technology provides greater inventory visibility, improves business and control processes, and enhances supply management efficiency [26,47]. Hence, many industries are in various stages of applying RFID to experimental projects to improve operational efficiency and gain competitive advantages [5].…”

Determinants of RFID adoption intention: Evidence from Taiwanese retail chains

“…Complexity challenges may include: (1) a lack of customized solutions for RFID system and their incompatibility with existing IT systems (termed C 1 ) [18]; (2) little or no harmonization of interfaces due to the lack of unified standards for RFID (termed C 2 ) [25]; (3) large investment and maintenance costs of establishing RFID and related IS (termed C 3 ); (4) poor tracking reliability due to poor reception of RFID radio waves absorbed or distorted by moisture or metals (termed C 4 ); and (5) reduced business security because company supply chain flows can be tracked by monitoring the RFID equipment (termed C 5 ) [17].…”

Business process analysis and simulation for the RFID and EPCglobal Network enabled supply chain: A proof-of-concept approach

“…A main reason for RFID adoption in supply chain is the capability of technology to provide more advantages than traditional barcodes (Tzeng et al, 2008;Wu et al, 2006). A basic RFID system is composed of RFID tag, RFID reader and its antennas, and a computer equipped with configured middleware program.…”