Roadmap to tracking based business and intelligent products

Computers in Industry

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 229-233

  Holmström, Jan ^a   Kajosaari, Risto ^a   Främling, Kary ^a   Langius, Erik ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asset management; Item centric tracking; RFID; Supply chain management; Track and trace

Indexed keywords

ASSET MANAGEMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS; ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY; MATERIAL TYPES; ORGANIZATIONAL BOUNDARIES; RFID TECHNOLOGY; SUPPLY CHAIN OPERATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TRACK AND TRACE;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 60249090067     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2008.12.006     Document Type: Note

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