RFID Paper Read Report

1. RFID Paper Read Report 授課教授:黃秋煌 教授 報告人:邱宇溏 學號：M0116953 報告日期：2012/12/17

2. Outline Paper1： The EPCglobal Network: Enhancing the Supply Chain. Paper2： A Case Study to Track High Value Stillages Using RFID for an Automobile OEM and Its Supply Chain in the Manufacturing Industry. Comment

3. The EPCglobal Network: Enhancing the Supply Chain

4. Introduction RFID stands poised to fundamentally change supply-chain management, enabling enterprises to realize significant savings to the top and bottom line. P & G, which expects to increase after-tax profits by $150 million and realize a working capital increase of $1 billion through adoption of RFID.

5. Introduction This paper provides a brief overview of RFID technology with a focus on how the EPCglobal Network can drive the value of RFID to all parties in the supply chain.

6. RFID in the Supply Chain1 One emerging use for the technology is to track valuable items as they move through physical supply chains. Most applications of RFID for tagging and tracking items have been for operations within a single company.

7. RFID in the Supply Chain 2 To take RFID beyond the confines of a single organization and create value for the entire supply chain, a few things are needed： First, there must be a standardized way of uniquely identifying items within the supply chain. Second, there must be a standard means of discovering and sharing the data that describes each identified item. The first requirementis addressedthrough EPCs.

8. RFID in the Supply Chain 3 EPCs are essentially the next generation of Universal Product Codes (UPCs) used in bar, except EPCs have the added benefit of being able to identify products uniquely at the item level. The second requirement to extend RFID value across trading partners is a standards-based method to discover and share data about EPCs.

9. Using the EPCglobal Network to Create Real Value • The following are examples of real-world business problems that can be solved using the EPCglobalNetwork： • Shippingand Receiving • Product Theft • Counterfeiting • Product Recall

10. How the EPCglobal Network Works • The registration of this product knowledge by each EPC Information Service into the EPC Discovery Service enables full supply-chain visibility.

11. The EPCglobal Network and the Evolution of Product Data Sharing The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the largest directories in use today, and handles over billions of queries daily to support Web site lookups and email delivery. Some estimates predict that the EPCglobal Network system will need to support hundreds of billions of lookups per day. The VeriSign® Advanced Transactional Lookup and Signaling (ATLAS™) infrastructure currently supports multiple VeriSign offerings, including DNS services for .com and .netdomains.

12. Conclusion Expectations for the efficiencies and cost savings to be gained from RFID technology and the EPCglobal Network are high—and with good reason.

13. A Case Study to Track High Value Stillages Using RFID for an Automobile OEM and Its Supply Chain in the Manufacturing Industry P. Foster MSc, A. Sindhu, D. Blundell

14. INTRODUCTION The case study is representing active research at an automotive manufacturing plant covering four vehicle programmes with approximately 400 special container types per car line. In this particular study, the logistics processes of the entire operation within the manufacturing plant of the OEM are thoroughly investigated to determine the feasibility for use of RFID technologies.

15. Stillage

16. THE SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS SCENARIO A typical OEM supplier receives the stillages from the stillage manufacturer so that it can send the automotive parts to the OEM. The stillages carrying these parts will be sent to the ‘Cross Docking Centre’ of the OEM by the logistics provider. The Cross Docking Centre which is responsible for receiving thousands of these stillages, arriving from possibly hundreds of different suppliers at different times and then sends these stillages to the manufacturing and assembling plants at the OEM.

17. Supplier Cross Docking Center Pallet Park Figure 1: A typical Stillage moving procedure Landrover Pallet Repair

18. Process Problem This business process is problematic for the OEM to maintain and improve effectively. Reasons: One of the reasons for this is the inability to track these high value stillages in a time efficient and cost effective way. Because the stillages are not always located at their expected storage areas. This was put down to many reasons, such as mishandling and misplacement by loaders, truck drivers or warehouse workers, mainly due to the complexity of the process and the number of agents involved.

19. Why it need RFID technology The majority of the processes are manual and there is a lack of automated mechanisms to verify the deliveries and the stillage handling. A typical OEM is losing millions of pounds annually due to the inadequacies of the existing process.

20. TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE

21. Suppliers

22. OEM • Show that StillagesReceived • Show StillagesDetails • Track StillagesHistory • Showing Missing Stillages

23. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORKS The research has investigated some of the ways to track high value stillages within the supply chain of an automotive OEM for the automation of logistics procedures. The research output intends to reduce the misplacement and leakage of stillages, which has a significant impact on the quality assurance and management costs of the logistics and manufacturing process.

24. My Comment

25. Comment 第一篇文章著重於EPCglobal應用於供應鏈中，可以即時得到一些商品訊息，進而明顯改善產業的損失，相關案例是以結果論的面相來探討強化供應鏈的主題。 第二篇文章則利用汽車代工廠的所有供應商的例子，藉由RFID技術，可讓代工廠在接收眾多供應商的品項時，不會因為品項的繁雜或人員的疏失而影響生產流程。

26. Comment • 個人對此兩篇文章歸納出以下幾點關聯性： • RFID可解決追蹤產品(貨品)的商業行為。 • RFID的識別功能可讓人們即時獲得相關資訊，可減低人工作業面的疏失，精準地解決業務面的問題。 • RFID改善了生產與銷貨的作業管理方式，可讓傳統生產與銷貨過程中隱藏的部分變更透明化，RFID已成功節省不可預知的成本，進而提升營運績效。