RFID Facilitating Strategy Using Taiwan's Distribution Center as an Example

The applications of RFID are the most promising issue which have caught attentions from every aspects of the global supply chain members. Both Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense, USA have announced that they will be facilitating RFID technology as their mainly strategy of supply chain management. Top suppliers are asked to furnish the utilization of this emerging technology. The goal has been set up to catch the potential benefits of RFID which including enhanced products visibility .traceability and safety at the manufacturing and distribution stages even throughout the total lifecycle. More and more fields take aggressive steps on RFID adoption and some business cases have revealed the advantage of RFID technology. As an important manufacturing and distribution base on the world, Taiwan has noticed this trend. In order to promote the competitiveness and to link up with the world through the application of RFID, this research focus on the facilitating strategy that how a Taiwan’s business implement a new technology. We take distribution centers as our observe target, the collaborate module of government and enterprise will also be discussed.