Information systems used in carrefour

1.    Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

·       Definition:

Is technology uses communication by radio waves in order to exchange data between a reader and an electronic tag attached to an object, for the purpose of identification and tracking.

·       Purpose:

It tracks and documents the products as they move through the manufacturing process. Also, RFID allows data to be transmitted wirelessly through the products that are holding an RFID tag microchip, which is read by an RFID reader. The data transmitted can provide identification, location information, or specifics such as date of purchase or price about the products. For example, a production organization has the ability to track all the products that are sold to different external organization. If we assume organization X is supplying Carrefour with dairy products. Carrefour will make a deal with organization X, when the amount of dairy products reach XX number of items, than the organization X will ship more products before the products are sold. This way, Carrefour will have consistency of products avaiable to be sold.

·       Uses of RFID technology:

RFID makes it possible to give each product in a grocery store its own unique identifying number, to provide assets, people, work in process, medical devices and many more.  All with individual unique identifiers like the license plate on a car but this technology cover all the item in around the world.