ENTRY-LEVEL SOLUTIONS FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZE ENTERPRISES IN SUPPLY CHAINS

The increasing need for customization, more efficient quality feedback, better supply chain coordination, etc. are all factors which demand for implementation of item-level tracking and tracing services across company borders. A platform enabling such operations has been developed under the acronym of TraSe

AutoID-based track and trace applications in supply-chains - state-of-the-art and envisaged developments

The paper gives an overview of supply-chain-related problems marked as focal issues by recent trends, as well as tracking and tracing technologies commonly applied to solve them. Especially in economies relying on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), it is important to make such technologies affordable for small participants of production—such envisaged plans of ongoing research and development are presented in the paper as well