Evaluation of RFID applications for logistics: A framework for identifying, forecasting and assessing benefits

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 578-591

  Baars, Henning ^a   Gille, Daniel ^b   Strüker, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost?benefit analysis; Logistics; RFID

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949084371     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ejis.2009.32     Document Type: Article

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