Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders.
An RFID tag is an object that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.
Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a (RF) signal, and other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal. Chipless RFID allows for discrete identification of tags without an integrated circuit, thereby allowing tags to be printed directly onto assets at a lower cost than traditional tags.
Today, RFID is used in enterprise supply chain management to improve the efficiency of inventory tracking and management. However, growth and adoption in the enterprise supply chain market is limited because current commercial technology does not link the indoor tracking to the overall end-to-end supply chain visibility. Coupled with fair cost-sharing mechanisms, rational motives and justified returns from RFID technology investments are the key ingredients to achieve long-term and sustainable RFID technology adoption
e-business, EDI, ERP, RFID
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While the words Commerce and Business don’t have much difference in English and in fact are largely interchangeable as nouns describing organized profit-seeking activity, there is a difference between eCommerce and eBusiness. The difference is quite artificial, but different terms do carry different meanings. A “buzz” started when Amazon and Dell first succeeded over the electronic business model in the past. Electronic business transactions involving money are so-called “e-commerce” activities. However, there’s much more to e-business than meets the eye.
Ebusiness goes far beyond ecommerce or buying and selling over the Internet, and deep into the processes and cultures of an enterprise. It is the powerful business environment that is created when you connect critical business systems directly to customers, employees, vendors, and business partners, using Intranets, Extranets, ecommerce technologies, collaborative applications, and the Web.
Some food for thought acronyms that you may want to lookup involving ebusiness are:
- ERP
- CRM
- SCM
- Databases
- Intranets
- Extranets
- eProcurement
- data mining
Simply put, eCommerce is more of buying, reselling, and money exchanges over the internet. eBusiness is more of how businesses can utilize certain technologies to their advantages whether it is electronic ordering from vendors or data mining from multiple retail store locations.
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