Item-level RFID in the retail supply chain

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gaukler, Gary M.; Seifert, Ralf W.; Hausman, Warren H.
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; International Institute for Management Development (IMD); Stanford University
• 刊物名称: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1059-1478
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00166.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 65-76
• 关键词: RFID; item-level; retail; supply chain; cost sharing

摘要

Analyzing the proliferation of item-level RFID, recent studies have identified the cost sharing of the technology as a gating issue. Various qualitative studies have predicted that conflict will arise, in particular in decentralized supply chains, from the fact that the benefits and the costs resulting from item-level RFID are not symmetrically distributed among supply chain partners. To contribute to a better understanding of this situation, we consider a supply chain with one manufacturer and one retailer. Within the context of this retail supply chain, we present analytic models of the benefits of item-level RFID to both supply chain partners. We examine both the case of a dominant manufacturer as well as the case of a dominant retailer, and we analyze the results of an introduction of item-level RFID to such a supply chain depending on these market power characteristics. Under each scenario, we show how the cost of item-level RFID should be allocated among supply chain partners such that supply chain profit is optimized.