Supply Chain Management White Papers
Applying Auto-ID to the Japanese Publication Business to Deliver Advanced Supply Chain Management, Innovative Retail Applications, and Convenient and Safe Reader Services
Overview In recent years, because of the decrease in costs and increase in promotion activities by standard groups such as Auto-ID Center, RFID has been gathering greater interests from industries such as apparel, publication, appliances, and general household goods. Furthermore, RFID is considered to be more than just a tool for efficient logistics and commerce; it is one of the infrastructure technologies for ubiquitous computing society. DNP, Sun, and NTT are cooperatively studying potential applications of Auto-ID technologies to Japanese publication business. This paper summarizes the activities and the findings thus far. The issues in Japanese publication business, possible solutions using Auto-ID technologies, and an experimental prototype system are described.
| Publisher | Auto-ID Center | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | October 2003 | Downloads | 15 |
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