your company supplies ceramic floor tiles to home depot, lowes, and other home improvement stores. you have been asked to start using radio frequency identification tags on each case of tiles you ship to help your customers improve the management of your products and those of other suppliers in their warehouses. use the web to identify the cost of hardware, software, and networking components for an rfid system for your company. what factors should be considered? what are the key decisions that have to be made in determining whether your firm should adopt this technology?

Compare RFID systems to other options that may be considered.

How could inclusion of RFID system help improve the management of supply and inventory?