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Global Commerce Initiative EPC Roadmap
Evaluate
26
Targeted Trials
Plan Deployment
Develop
Management
Policies
Technology
Partner
Selection
Company
EPC Vision
Trial Partner
Evaluate
Trading
EPC
Systems
4 Selection
Trials 5 Partners Deployment Integration 6
Adoption
Strategy
Planning
Detailed
Business Case
Transaction
Planning
Minimum
Deployment
Planning
= Individual Trials
Minimum
Deployment
Planning
Source: IBM Business Consulting Services
Transition Planning
A deployment plan will be required to assess the
company’s present position and to determine how
willing or able the company is to embark with this
initiative. What steps must be taken to get the
company into a state of readiness? What business
processes need to be changed to gain value from
automatic detection of product movement?
Each company needs to recognise the scale of
change involved and should identify
interdependencies and constraints with other IT,
business and supply chain initiatives.
The plan will need to identify the products, locations,
processes, sequence, and timing for deployment,
including organisational and staff responsibilities. A
successful implementation will identify
measurement criteria to drive the undertaking and
redirect planning where necessary (e.g., key
performance indicators (KPIs) for process
performance, financial measures to record business
case success).
Detailed Business Case
As the trials conclude and the deployment strategy
is solidified, revisiting the business case can be
important. The trials will give greater visibility of the
adoption route to be taken, allowing more refined
assumptions on the costs, benefits, and return on
investment (ROI) to be analysed for the company.
A cost range of tags, readers, and infrastructure will
be required to allow sensitivity analysis and review of
deployment options (pallet, case, and item tagging). It
is important when developing the network revenues
to agree on the costs of the tags and readers over the
life of the model and to agree on an ROI timeline.
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