RFID: Coming Soon to a Supply Chain Near You

by Robert C. Gardner

Your mission as an IT executive is to support corporate strategies and operations by managing the IT organization and its assets. Supply chains, however, pose difficulties for this mission. The problem is a lack of accurate and real-time data about the way in which products flow through the supply chain -- data that business managers, unaware of these challenges, assume IT departments can access in a database somewhere. Further, as the economy begins to turn upward, the IT function is just emerging from the doghouse. Wouldn't it be great to have a solid new technology to speed your return from the backyard to the boardroom?