Understanding RFID Technology within a Business Intelligence Framework

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology provides new and exciting opportunities for increasing organiza- tional, financial, and operational performance. With its focus on organizational efficiency and effectiveness, RFID technology is superior to barcodes in its ability to provide source automation features that increase the speed and volume of data collection for analysis. Today, applications that employ RFID are growing rapidly and this technology is in a continuous state of evolution and growth. As it continues to progress, RFID provides us with new opportunities to use business intelligence (BI) to monitor organizational operations and learn more about markets, as well as consumer attitudes, behaviors, and product preferences. This technology can even be used to prevent potentially faulty or spoiled products from ending up in the hands of consumers. However, RFID offers significant challenges to organizations that attempt to employ this technology. Most significantly, there exists the potential for RFID to overwhelm data collection and BI analytic efforts if organizations fail to effectively address RFID data integration issues. To this end, the purpose of this article is to explicate the dynamic technology of RFID and how it is being used today. Additionally, this article will provide insights into how RFID technology is evolving and how this technology relates to BI and issues related to data integration. This knowledge has never been more essential. While IT academic research into RFID development and issues has declined in recent years, RFID continues to be a vital area of exploration, especially as it relates to BI in the 21st century

Role of Electronic Customer Relationship Management in Demand Chain Management

“…RFID when integrated with BI and other business applications, essential information can be generated, viewed, analyzed, applied and presented to end users. For instance, IBM states that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day-so much that 90 percent of the data in the world today has been creating in the last two years alone from desperate sources often referred as 'big data' (Herschel & Rafferty, 2012). Barlow, Parry & Faulker (2005) argued that sense and respond paradigm is going to be the 21st century compatible methodology wherein the lead production will be driven by the desire to achieve optimal customer service by sensing and responding to the customer.…”

“…Business performance management tools such as scorecards and dashboards are often used in BI to visualize various performance metrics called key performance indicators (KPIs) to Analyze and Measure. For this purpose it adopts advanced knowledge discovery techniques of data and text mining such as association rule mining, database segmentation, clustering, anomaly detection and predictive (Herschel & Rafferty, 2012). Act in this context does mean the act of model building targeted to meet to solve the problem specific to the context or a situation (Kianrad, 2006).…”

Improving the lean logistic operations management in transportation by introducing the RFID system

“…(Kang, Kim andLee, 2017, Michael andMcCathie, 2005) The most important parts of the RFID consist in a tag which usually is being attached to a product, a reader with antennas in direct connection with the tag and a computer program for selecting and managing DATA aligned to other information management systems such as ERP (enterprise resource planning), WMS (warehouse management system) and TMS (transportation management system). (Herschel and Rafferty, 2012) The RFID system can be implemented using The EPC (Electronic Produce Code) global network, designed to be able to inquire history and product information, the present location and condition, sharing the collected data with the interested parts. The actual global framework refers to three basic information services: EPCIS (EPC Information Services), a capture interface entitled to store the RFID data information between stakeholders, the ONS (Object Naming Services) which contains one or more resource identifiers, providing information regarding product name or manufacturing date, and DS (Discovery Services) which stores and shares the products' information transfer to different sites.…”

A Scientometric Assessment of Global Publication Output on RFID with Reference to India During 2006-15

“…The RFID has been successfully integrated across a wide variety of industries including animal identification, pharmaceutical, building access control, toll collection, vehicle immobilization systems, aviation industry, waste management, and mining industries [2][3][4] . RFID provides new opportunities to use business intelligence (BI) to monitor organisational operations and learn more about markets, as well as consumer attitudes, behaviors, and product preferences 5 . Many IT software companies in India have forayed into RFID technology, offering solutions mainly for time and attendance for SMEs.…”