Meeting the RFID mandate : options for Wal-Mart suppliers and evaluation methodology

Various retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, and Albertsons have announced their mandates asking their top suppliers to become RFID enabled beginning 2005. Meeting the mandate has become a sort of cost of doing business with Wal-Mart for suppliers. The objective of this thesis is to look for ways of meeting the mandate and preventing it from just becoming a cost of doing business with Wal-Mart. The thesis explores the various options available to suppliers and identifies the cost and benefit associated with each option and develops an evaluation methodology for the various options.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2004

Author dc:creator

• Singh, Kapil Dev, 1975-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Larry Lapide.

• Engineering Systems Division.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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en_US

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28518

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/28518