Concerning the increasing SCM integration with a reference to some RFID challenges

The first couple of years of the century brought great and paradigmatic changes to the field of integrated logistic. These changes are accompanied by numerous technological innovations. One of them is the radio frequency identification (RFID). Significant contemporary logistical challenge for ICT experts is how to seamlessly integrate RFID into the existing supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning applications in the overall system. Literature in this domain has not yet comprehensively analysed the associate challenges and impediments to such integration. In attempt to fill at least partly this gap, there has been realized two surveys with aims to a) rank four challenging issues estimated as key ones in implementation of RFID in SCM and b) establish the correlation between two pairs of critical criteria sets of impediments in this domain, along with ranking belonging sub-criteria due to their severity. Through some quantitative-qualitative analysis of the obtained responds, the authors examined to a certain extent the relations between stumbling factors for increasing the integration of SCM by adapting contemporary RFID technology solutions.