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Summary
Summary
At the same time, I was a junior Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble w- ried about a much more mundane problem: how to keep my products on the shelf. Embedding RFID tags in the products, and RFID readers in the shelf, seemed like the perfect - indeed the only - way to do this. But I needed RFID to be cheaper, better, and standardized in an open system. In early 1999, by sheer chance, I met Brock and Sarma. The result was a potent meeting of minds. I was looking to fund research, and Brock, Sarma and Siu were looking for research funding. Working with Alan Haberman of the Uniform Code Council, one of the founding fathers of the UPC bar code, and Allan Boath of the Gillette C- pany, we developed a plan for a new industry funded research consortium at MIT. Haberman wanted to call it the Center For Automatic Identification And Data Capture. At the last minute I persuaded him to abbreviate it to the Auto-ID Center. But my luck with names is hit and miss: inspired by the bar code, I had the bad idea of calling Auto-ID Center's technology UPC2. Brock and Sarma saved the day - one of them, I cannot remember which, proposed a far better alternative: EPC, for electronic product code. The Auto-ID Center opened on October 1, 1999. P&G loaned me to MIT to act as Executive Director, and Sunny Siu was the first Research Director.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables | p. vii |
Foreword | |
Who Invented the EPC? | p. xi |
A Large-Scale Effort | p. xv |
Preface | p. XXIII |
Part I Introduction | |
Chapter 1 The Emergence of a New Key Technology | p. 3 |
Chapter 2 Hardware: RFID Tags and Readers | p. 15 |
Chapter 3 Infrastructure: EPCglobal Network | p. 29 |
Chapter 4 Data: What, When, and Where? | p. 41 |
Part II Leveraging the Supply Chain: Case Studies | |
Chapter 5 Warehousing: Improving Customer Service | p. 49 |
Chapter 6 Maintenance: Service Parts Inventory Management | p. 59 |
Chapter 7 Pharmaceuticals: Preventing Counterfeits | p. 71 |
Chapter 8 Medical Devices: Smart Healthcare Infrastructure | p. 109 |
Chapter 9 Agriculture: Animal Tracking | p. 119 |
Chapter 10 Food: Dynamic Expiration Dates | p. 127 |
Chapter 11 Retailing: Theft Prevention | p. 135 |
Chapter 12 Defense: Improving Security and Efficiency | p. 159 |
Part III Creating Business Value | |
Chapter 13 The Role of Data in Enterprise Resource Planning | p. 177 |
Chapter 14 Building a Business Case for the EPCglobal Network | p. 187 |
Chapter 15 Enhancing Revenue Using the EPC | p. 199 |
Chapter 16 Outlook: Navigating the Sea of Data | p. 229 |
Notes | p. 249 |
Glossary | p. 283 |