“…When materials arrive at a production station, an RFID tag applied to an "intelligent" wood product communicates automatically with the production equipment to identify the job order and automatically makes the cuts according to the job requirements, "without requiring operator intervention to set up the machine" [73]. Although such applications are interesting, developing and maintaining more complex RFID based applications is difficult because developers have to (a) anticipate and configure all relevant scenarios (use case) in the middleware, and (b) learn to manage various interfaces and protocols especially when using components and interactive module of the EPC Network [50]. Having discussed basic technological and conceptual aspects related to RFID & the EPC Network, we introduce, in table 2-2, the (i) the so called "smart supply chain" concept [11], [58] that can be defined as (ii) a collection of "smart processes" automatically triggered to perform specific transactions such as automated receiving and shipping, real time cycle counting, assisted picking, etc.…”