Retail shelf replenishment with item-level RFID tagging

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-37

  Abdulmalek, Fawaz ^a   Wang, Lin ^b   Norman, Bryan A ^b   Rajgopal, Jayant ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Radio frequency identification; Retail; RFID; Shelf replenishment; Simulation

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; RADIO WAVES; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CUSTOMER DEMANDS; INVENTORY INFORMATION; ITEM-LEVEL RFID; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY; RETAIL; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; TRADE OFF;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 79959644362     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2011.040764     Document Type: Article

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