Free Narrated Online Introductions to Technology

Bar Code and RFID: The Link Between Inventory and Supply Chain Control

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Class Description

This foundation class is essential for IT and IS professionals as well as operations managers and executives. Supply chains are about linking products to orders and orders to shipments and shipments to payments. The class examines the basic transactions that both cause and result from material flow and explains how bar codes are used to identify each different product and shipping container moving throughout a supply chain.

It helps everyone to understand how contemporary systems are now able to obtain the volume of real time, discrete, information that is necessary to provide 100% accurate visibility into sales, shipments, inventory and orders to improve procurement, inventory and scheduling systems This knowledge is valuable to any size company regardless of its level of sophistication.

Students will learn the base line concepts and technical capabilities so they can communicate more effectively with:

• Customers and suppliers who may be asking to use the technology

• Those who provide the information, manufacturing and distribution systems that use the information

• Other peers when discussing new business solutions 

When the class is over, students will understand the direct and vital relationship between material and information flow.

Class Outline

Introduction

• The Role of supply chain technology

• Were to get further information

Standards and information elements

• Beyond bar codes

• Communications, Documents. Transactions

• Product ID (the number in the bar code)

• What should be included in a company or industry standard

The communication cycle

• Buyer to supplier flow

• Information interchange

• Bar code interchange

Benefits to trading partners

• Capabilities

• The value of accurate information

• Partners: what they do

• Benefits list

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