Factors for the introduction of RFID on the distribution industry

Author

Fu, H.P. ; Du, Z.J. ; Lin, Alexander ; Lin, Y.L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Marketing & Distrib. Manage., Nat. Kaohsiung First Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1204

Lastpage

1208

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to comprehensively understand the important level of each factor and objectively select the key factors that influence the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) by the distribution industry (including logistics and retailing) in Taiwan. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) is utilized to find the weighting of each factor, based on opinions of RFID alliance members, including the distribution industry and RFID solution providers. It is hoped that the research results can provide a reference for the distribution industry in terms of their focus on better allocation of resources to form appropriate strategies, which will improve success rates, when adopting RFID.

Keywords

analytic hierarchy process; fuzzy set theory; goods distribution; production engineering computing; radiofrequency identification; FAHP; RFID solution providers; distribution industry; fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; radio frequency identification; resources allocation; Accuracy; Companies; Industries; Radiofrequency identification; Resource management; Supply chains; Adoption Factors; Distribution Industry; FAHP; RFID; VIKOR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2012.6837934

Filename

6837934