RFID Infrastructure for Large Scale Supply Chains Involving Small and Medium Enterprises

A 'manufacturing based supply chain' containing a broad spectrum of partners, including manufacturers, third party logistic providers, distributors and retailers, all of whom, have mixed modes of value adding processes (Chauhan & Proth, 2005). An important success factor for this type of supply chains is the ability for the partners to identify and track products moving through the supply chain, using the latest information technologies (IT). However, these value enhancements would vary substantially according to the nature of the partners¿ business requirement. As such, the flexibility of managing the IT infrastructure for supporting value adding activities is of the utmost importance.