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The intelligent product driven supply chain
Abstract
Establishing connectivity of products with real-time information about themselves can at one level provide accurate data, and at another, allow products to assess and influence their own destiny. In this way, the specification for an intelligent product is being built - one whose information content is permanently bound to its material content. This paper explores the impact of such development on supply chains, contrasting between simple and complex product supply chains. The Auto-ID project is on track to enable such connectivity between products and information using a single, open-standard, data repository for storage and retrieval of product information. The potential impact on the design and management of supply chains is immense. This paper provides an introduction to of some of these changes, demonstrating that by enabling intelligent products, Auto ID systems will be instrumental in driving future supply chains. The paper also identifies specific application areas for this technology in the product supply chain.
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- Authors
- Wong, C. Y., McFarlane, D., Ahmad Zaharudin, A., & Agarwal, V.
- Venue
- IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2003-08-27
- Volume
- vol.4
- Pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 1062-922X (ISSN-L)
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- W2149245984
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- 277
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- 18.86
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- conference paper
- Language
- en
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- closed
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