Analysing Critical Factors of introducing RFID into an Enterprise — An Application of AHP and DEMATEL method
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https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2011.18.7.250Keywords:
RFID, AHP, DEMATEL, supply chain, logisticsAbstract
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) has been progressively applied worldwide in recent years. It is because the application of the RFID has came into being not only to improve the internal operation in an enterprise, but connect the systems among the enterprises more easily, and hence increase the operational efficiency in the supply chain systems. However, investigation reveals that only a few industries successfully introduced RFID in Taiwan. This research is trying to discover the principle factors that have significant effect to the whole application and explore the cause and effect relationship between the factors. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is employed to conduct pair-wise comparison and investigate the relationship between factors so as to obtain the eigenvectors of the factors hierarchically. Next we utilized Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) as the method to examine the cause and effect in every criteria and the related extent in order to check the introduced results and to discuss the problems encountered when introducing RFID to the system. The result is used as the reference for enterprises to introduce RFID as a tool to enhance their competitiveness in the future.
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