The aim of this paper is to present an economic\r\nevaluation framework of an RFID system implementation\r\nthrough a pilot project with the aim of streamlining logistic\r\nprocesses and compliance with higher level requirements.\r\nThe company involved in the project belongs to the\r\nCPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) food industry, and in\r\nparticular to the alimentary industry, whose principal\r\nscope was to comply the new norms of the sector by\r\nimplementation of a better traceability system. This\r\nsystem, besides being very effective for the scope of the\r\nproject, also had a huge impact in economic terms on\r\nlogistics resources and cost reduction. For this reason,\r\nthe discover of the RFID technology for the company\r\nhas been greatly appreciated at management level, and\r\ntoday other fields of application are under evaluation.\r\nThe added value of this article is contained not only\r\nin the results obtained in the economic evaluations,\r\nbut also in the applied methodology, evidencing the\r\nadvantages obtainable in the processes by cutting no\r\nadded value operations. The economic analysis has\r\nthus been conducted on the basis of this TO-BE process\r\nstreamlining.
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