SAP RFID Future Vision ...

SAP RFID Future Vision: SAP Business Economist Offers Real World Awareness Vision to Drive ...

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From PR Newswire (press release) ... Second Book from SAP Executive Provides Commentary, Analysis and Framework to Help Decision Makers Understand and Responsibly Deploy RFID Technologies CHICAGO ...

... SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the second business management book by SAP executive board member and business economist Claus Heinrich, outlining SAP's vision for next-generation business environments and technologies that will change how companies sense and respond to market dynamics in the near and distant future. In the new book, "RFID and Beyond: Growing Your Business through Real World Awareness," Heinrich expands upon the concept of the adaptive business network introduced in his first book, "Adapt or Die - Transforming Your Supply Chain into an Adaptive Business Network," in which a company's business processes are so tightly integrated with those of its key business partners, suppliers and customers that it can respond swiftly to any shift in customer demand, new market opportunity or external threat. The announcement was made at National Manufacturing Week, being held in Chicago, Illinois, March 7 - 10. ...

Prof. Dr. Claus E. Heinrich has been a member of the executive board of SAP AG since 1996. During his 18 years at SAP, he has headed up multiple areas, including SAP(R) R/3(R) development, SAP's manufacturing industry solutions, human resources and labor relations. Widely recognized as a practitioner and an international thought-leader in the supply chain management and RFID space, Heinrich serves on the boards of several academic institutions, as well as that of a consumer packaged goods company. With a doctorate in Business Administration, he is also the author of several articles and books including "Adapt or Die - Transforming Your Supply Chain into an Adaptive Business Network" and "RFID and Beyond: Growing Your Business through Real World Awareness." He also lectures as a professor of Management Science at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

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