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RFID and Logistics: Four Trends You Need to Know

12 December 2006

Manufacturing.net has an article about RFID and logistics trends that the author: Tom Singer advises us to be aware about.
So here are the four trends,
Trend One: The High Cost of Fuel
Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of transportation spending is a hot topic for logistics operations. Approximately 80 percent of North American freight expenditures are on […]

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Cardinal Health Releases RFID Pilot Results

14 November 2006

Cardinal Health Releases RFID Pilot Results in a recent news release. They report,
Test data shows promise and gaps of the technology that will affect widespread adoption across pharmaceutical industry
The aims of the RFID pilot program were as follows:

The pilot program tested whether ultra-high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tags could be applied, encoded and […]

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IBM looks to RFID to fight counterfeit drugs

10 August 2006

IBM has released a new RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag designed to combat counterfeit products flowing through a supply chain. Aimed primarily at pharmaceutical companies, the RFID tags are placed on the product at the unit, case and pallet level and is tracked through the entire supply chain. Apparently, a pharmaceutical product changes hands as […]

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RFID ROI — Not what it seems

3 July 2006

I was having a recent discussion over lunch with an executive from a specialty grocer out west who admittedly didn’t know what the big hoopla was about RFID. The mother of all grocers and supermarketers is into it in a big way but he didn’t know what the point of it was except maybe for […]

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RFID Reshapes Supply Chain Management

19 June 2006

Is RFID reshaping Supply Chain Management?
If you go by the talk of the town or are collared by the US Department of Defense or Walmart, then chances are that RFID is one of those uber initiatives that are top priority. From my viewpoint, which is from that of a large warehouser (GENCO is a large […]

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