Seven Steps To RFID Sanity

RFID clarity is best achieved through action. Once you have completed the analysis phase, the only way to learn the true value of RFID is to start testing the technology in a desired application. Follow these simple steps for a more successful implementation: Step 1: Understand your visibility requirements. What items do you want to read? Where? How often? From what distance?Step...

RFID based E-toll system introduced on Pakistan Motorways

Pakistan now joins the list of growing countries where RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) based electronic toll collection is in use. For now it has been introduced on Peshawar - Islamabad M1 and Islamabad - Lahore M2 Motorways. This technology allows the vehicles to pass through toll booths without stopping and toll amount is automatically deducted from the money account on record.How...

Value of Operational Strategy

The idea of operations strategy plays an important role in determining the overall long-term success of an organization. Developing an operations strategy means looking to innovative ways to add value for the customer in the goods and services that the firm produces and delivers. Value can have many meanings. Managers must therefore align the operations strategy of their firm with the strategies...

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Management synchronizes the efforts of all parties suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, dealers, customers, and so on involved in meeting a customer’s needs. The approach often relies on technology to enable seamless exchanges of information, goods and services across organizational boundaries. It forges much closer relationships among all links in...

Introduction to RFID

RFID RFID is known as silent communication or object to object communication without any physical medium. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that uses radio waves to identify objects and read data. Windshield tags that pay tolls, security tags for apparel and identity cards that permit access to restricted areas are...

Agency Theory

Agency Theory:Probes the relationship between principals and agents. Principals appoint agents to get the work done. The goals of principals usually differ from those of agents. This gives rise to the agency problem. For example, advertisers (principals) tend to emphasize sales goals and the cost­-effectiveness of marketing communications,...

Note On Lean Manufacturing:

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Personal Effectiveness:

Personal Effectiveness:Possibly, the most well known model, Stephen Covey’s seven habits provide a simple-to-understand-and-use framework of personal effectiveness.Be Proactive: People are responsible for their own choices and have the freedom to make decisions based on principles and values rather than on moods or conditions.Begin with the...

Supply Chain Management

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Logistics: A Short History

The term logistics entered in the Military Terminology in the 18th century.The term received a written definition in 1905 as 'that branch of the art of war pertaining to the movement and supply of armies. But, it was not until World War - II that the term began to be used pervasively to describe the support of military forces and their equipment.HISTORY The term logistics migrated to the...

Logistics

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