RFID and Supply Chain Systems Laboratory
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
Director: Dr. Gary M. Gaukler
News
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Dr. Gaukler's dissertation at Stanford University, "RFID in Supply Chain Management", was the top-selling dissertation across all Engineering fields, and the 5th-best selling dissertation overall in 2006, according to ProQuest: http://il.proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/07/20070830.shtml
The dissertation is available here: RFID in Supply Chain Management.
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"Applications
of RFID in Supply Chains" by G.M. Gaukler and R.W. Seifert is published as
a book chapter in “Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies
and Methodologies”, edited by Hosang Jung, F. Frank Chen, and Bongju Jeong; Springer-Verlag London Ltd.
· "Item-level RFID in the Retail Supply Chain" by G.M. Gaukler, R.W. Seifert and W.H. Hausman is published in Production and Operations Management Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2007.
Mission
The mission of the RFID and Supply Chain Systems Lab is to advance the understanding of supply chain systems and how automatic identification of objects through RFID can be used to run supply chains in a more efficient manner.
What is RFID?
RFID stands for
Radio-frequency identification. At its core, it is a contactless interrogation method for identification of
objects. Besides applications in supply chain
operations, some of the everyday uses of this technology are in ID cards,
sports equipment, windshield-mounted toll tags, and gasoline quick-purchase
tokens. RFID has also begun to be used in keychain auto anti-theft devices and
toys (most notably, Hasbro Star Wars figures), and even on paper tickets for
the 2006 Soccer World Cup in
A recent paper (co-authored by Dr. Gaukler with Dr. Ralf Seifert at IMD Lausanne) gives an overview of current applications of RFID in supply chains. The paper is published as a book chapter in “Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies and Methodologies”, edited by Hosang Jung, F. Frank Chen, and Bongju Jeong; Springer-Verlag London Ltd. You can download a copy of this paper here.
People affiliated with the Lab
Faculty:
Dr. Gary M. Gaukler (Director) - see Dr. Gaukler's web site
Students:
Daeheon Choi (MS awarded 2006) - A Simulation Study on the Impact of Rescheduling Frequency in a Supply Chain
GakGyu Kim (MS awarded 2007) - Locating Objects using RFID - an Analytical Approach
Jaime Luna Coronado (Doctor of Engineering 2007) - An Optimization Model for Supply Chain Diversification under Supplier's Random Disruptions on Capacity and the Impact of Information Sharing
Vijaya Chebolu-Subramanian (Ph.D. 2009) - RFID-enabled Traceability of Contaminated Products
Roberto Seijo (Ph.D. 2008) - Critical Path for Inventory Control Method
Won Ju Lee (Ph.D. 2008) - A Framework for Supply Chain Optimization With Stochastic Manufacturing Lead Times
Location
The RFID and Supply Chain
Systems Lab is located on the third floor of the