RFID-enabled visibility and retail inventory record inaccuracy: Experiments in the field

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 843-856

  Hardgrave, Bill C ^a   Aloysius, John A ^b   Goyal, Sandeep ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c University of Southern Indiana   (United States)

Author keywords

field experiment; inventory record inaccuracy (IRI); inventory visibility; radio frequency identification (RFID); supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880722426     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12010     Document Type: Article

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