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Countdown to RFID-Day

By Blanchard, Dave
Publication: Logistics Today
Date: Wednesday, December 1 2004
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A Penton Publication

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A look at how RFID can help replace bad inventory with good data

Some top suppliers to Wal-Mart

Stores Inc. (www.walmart.com) are already shipping their products with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on them. By this time next month, the last of the top suppliers should be on board. At least, that's the expectation, driven by an RFID push Wal-Mart launched in the summer of 2003.

Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers (as well as more than 30 other companies who have indicated their willingness to participate) have been asked to apply passive RFID tags to all cases and pallets being shipped to three Wal-Mart distribution centers in the Dallas, Tex., area. While Wal-Mart's suppliers are primarily shippers of consumer packaged goods, a parallel initiaTive is underway for suppliers to the U.S. Department of Defense (www.dod.mil), which also involves the aerospace & defense, high-tech and automotive industries.

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