Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been identified as one of the ten greatest contributory technologies of the twenty-first century (Chao et al. 2007). In the context of supply chain management (SCM), the technology has been considered as ‘‘the next revolution’’ (Srivastava 2004 pp. 1) since it allows the tracking of each object or product in real time in the supply chain (SC). However,