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This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the reduction in the bullwhip effect, and the potential benefits thanks to real-time visibility of production flows provided by the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology and other technologies. This paper is based on a Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) supply chain; the supply chain is composed of there echelons, namely manufacturers, distributors and retailers of FMCG, the RFID-based intra-SC system is implemented for the enterprise’s warehouse in Jiangsu, china. The result show that RFID application can dramatically improve the efficiency of FMCG supply chain, and real-time visibility of supply chain can markedly reduce the bullwhip effect, and substantially affecting the economical profitability of the whole FMCG supply chain.
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Zhigang, Z. (2012). Applying RFID to Reduce Bullwhip Effect in a FMCG Supply Chain. In: Lee, G. (eds) Advances in Computational Environment Science. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27957-7_24
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