A Literature Review on the Impact of Inventory Data Record Inaccuracies on Inventory Management and the Potential of the Rfid Technology to Tackle This Issue

The impact of the use of RFID on supply chain operations has been explored in several investigations. One of the main benefits of RFID that is identified by these studies is its ability to improve visibility in supply chains by enabling a better synchronization between the physical flow of goods and the information flow representing it. In this work, our focus is steered on data record inaccuracies that lead to discrepancies between these two flows in inventory systems (warehouses or distribution centers); our aim is to present an overview of investigations that examine the inventory data inaccuracy issue and explore the way that this issue can be tackled by using an advanced item identification and data capture system such as RFID.