Bridging the gap between RFID/EPC concepts, technological requirements and supply chain e-business processes

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-16

  Bendavid, Ygal ^a,b   Cassivi, Luc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Académia RFID   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Electronic product code; RFID; Supply chain management; Ubiquitous commerce

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251482824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 07181876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0718-18762010000300002     Document Type: Article

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