“…The key challenges include the identification and track & trace of items in supply chains, and information management and sharing, as well as security. As an advanced automatic identification technology, RFID allows supply chain partners to have real time information of supplies and demands and to avoid bullwhip effect (Huo & Jiang, 2007). Based on the analysis of SCM (supply chain management) visibility requirements and general RFID visibility potentials, Melski et al (Melski et al, 2008) proposed a four-step approach to show how visibility in supply chains can be improved with RFID-generated data.…”