Softwares and Applications of RFID in Supply Chain Management  Fulltext 

[ Saram Tofighi Edalatkhah ] - GS1 Iran - R & D Dept. MSc. in Marketing and Electronic Commerce From Tarbiat Modaress University in Iran & Lulea Uneversity in Sweden
[ Isa Nakhai ] - Assistant Professor at Tarbiat Modares University
[ Maziar Tasbihi ] - Tasbihi – IT Expert

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The challenge to compete and stay on top is tough but not impossible. The Supply Chain Management (SCM) software are tools that can manage processes, inventories, assets and partners, and which perform simple tracking of shipments to sophisticated monitoring of complex business flows within major processes. The ability to perform event management within supply chain is an important factor, providing the ability to deliver additional value to the customers and integrated services, such as forward notifications, simulations and adaptive collaborations.. In short, a successful Supply Chain Management solution can use six basic steps to help companies manage events in the entire supply chain:
1. Define specific targets for specific business objects, such as a shipment
2. Post event messages to report actual performance of business objects
3. Detect existing and upcoming problems by comparing actual performance with expected performance
4. Resolve problems by merging managerial attention and collaborative problem solving procedures.
5. Learn from historic event data
6. Adapt performance targets or operating procedures to prevent future problems
This is turn results in data visibility and decrease in fixed and working capital. The WebSphere RFID Solution middleware is the basic structure of IBM’s solutions for supply chain management. Also, mySAP SCM is the SAP Company's solution to Warehouse management is a well set of instruction for implementation.

Supply Chain Management, IBM Websphere software, mySAP software