The application of RFID on the web shopping delivery systems

[[abstract]]The increasingly popular online shopping today has brought infinite business opportunities with it. From personal second-hand e-trade to creative e-marketing, increased capital investments and professionalized managements by the big companies show great potential profits behind online shopping. Low costs and high yields are also incentives for SS company in which the author previously worked for in its investments in online shopping. By offering no shipping fees for customers fulfilling minimum purchase requirements, it can at the same time attract consumers in buying name-brand products of higher price, making Taiwan one of the biggest e-hypermarket website within a short period of time. For shipment process at the SS company, before official shipment after receiving purchase orders online, the term used for packed products ready for collection by the home delivery service is called, “awaiting for shipment”, a process in response to factors such as order cancellation prior to shipment, wrong amount of products packed by the packaging staffs or the change of address and time for shipment…etc. Problem package picked-up by the home delivery service will result in the increase of shipping cost, and how to efficiently find problem orders among so many packages is undoubtedly a great challenge for the company. By RFID Tag’s non-repeating and synchronized processing characteristics complementing with database program, problem packages can be found efficiently to reduce shipping costs