Experience of foreign armies in the application of RFID technology in logistics

• Main Authors: Velibor V. Jovanović, Danko M. Jovanović
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Defence in Belgrade 2012-04-01
• Series: Vojnotehnički Glasnik
• Subjects: logistics in the military; foreign army; automatic identification; RFID technology
• Online Access: http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0042-8469/2012/0042-84691202118J.pdf

RFID technology has found a wide application in both civilian and military systems with very different purposes; moreover, a tremendous growth of its application is predicted in the future. As a support to core activities, both in the Army and business systems, logistics must provide the conditions for a continuous system optimization, which can be achieved by RFID technology. It provides data collecting, processing, automated identification and storage. The most important factors of logistics information systems are satisfied with this technology. The main feature of the logistics of controlling - that data is always to be collected at a source - is also present. Managing supply chains is almost inconceivable without modern information systems. This technology enables automated data processing thus creating conditions which facilitate decision making. Military applications of RFID technology include monitoring codified items to the extent required by competent commanders, as well as documenting changes in business processes within provided logistic functions of supply. This work gives an analytical approach to the methods of RFID technology application in foreign armies with regard to its possible introduction into the practice of the Serbian Army.