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The below video shows a demonstration by IBM of the clipped RFID hang tag for clothing manufactured by Marnlen RFID of Toronto.

From RFID Journal: “Wal-Mart Stores remains fully committed to its use of radio frequency identification in its supply chain, and is already seeing quantifiable benefits, says Simon Langford, Wal-Mart’s director of transportation and RFID. Several of the retailer’s leading suppliers also say they are achieving benefits from tagging pallets, cases and promotional displays shipped to [...]

Staples Business Depot (Canada) Demonstrates Benefits of RFID (presentation) 1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Staples Business Depot, the Canadian subsidiary of the international office-products retailer, completed an end-to-end supply-chain pilot in 2006 with a group of its vendors to their delivery center, as well as on a direct-to-store basis to successfully demonstrate the process benefits [...]

Near Field Communications or NFC is coming, and expected to be widely available in handheld devices over the next few years. NFC provides mobile devices with RFID capability and NFC standards have been developed to allow these devices to capture information and exchange information with static items in the environment that are embedded with RFID [...]

From RFID Journal: ” The results of a three-month pilot program launched by Staples Business Depot are in. Several of the project’s successes were revealed at the RFID Journal Industry Summits conference in Chicago this week. Among them: The 270-store Canadian unit of Staples Inc. reduced the amount of time required to process shipments received [...]

The information age is now squarely upon us and anyone who is not welcoming it with open arms and developing strategies to cope and prosper in this new reality may wish to take their head out of the sand before they get buried ! Through collecting, processing, analyzing and sharing the types of information described [...]

In the depths of the 1982 recession, I joined The Hudson’s Bay Company in an entry level logistics role. It was actually quite disturbing as the quarterly reports continued to roll out with headlines like “Bay Bleeds $ 300 million” and other similarly ominous tones making me wonder what kind of firm I was working [...]

Supply chains consist of the ongoing flow of products from source to end point consumption with many potential network types, storage locations and transport routings to support distibution of these products. The operative word in this discussion is products as they really are the key component and represent the base building blocks which make up [...]

Tennis and golf are on the minds of many at this time of year. One of the secrets for success in both of these games is to find and consistently hit the ball with the sweet spot of your racket or club. The resulting increase in both distance and power can be astounding and make [...]

Are things getting a bit stale in your supply chain? Perhaps not alot has changed over the last several years, only the odd customer complaint. Budgets have been stable with only regular inflationary adjustments year over year. The company is profitable and all seems well with the world. The only mildly concerning trend is that [...]

The more I investigate and learn about Radio Frequency Identification technology, the more I believe that it truly is the “missing link” when it comes to management of the world’s supply chains. In 1985 the concept of Quick Response (QR) was developed as a full cycle cross company integrated logistics and replenishment model with potential [...]

Not long ago, we asked Is radio frequency identification ready for prime time?. Now the question becomes Are you ready for radio frequency identification ? If you’ve not started investigating radio frequency identification technology and how it can be applied in your supply chain, it may be sneaking up on you in some areas. I [...]

Expense saving strategies for the logistician For those firms who have yet to wring all possible benefits from their supply chain, significant low hanging benefit opportunities may be waiting in the Logistics area. This is especially true in the growing number of firms where other companies have been merged or acquired resulting in potential synergy [...]

Companies in all facets of Logistics and Supply Chain need to be very concerned about commoditization. Simply put, when the service or product provided by a firm can be supplied equally well by a number of other firms, then that service/product simply becomes a commodity and price is often the only deterrent in supplier selection. [...]

So you’ve determined the best geographic location for your logistics warehouse or distribution center and now all you have to do is find any available site and get building. Well that sounds simple, but truly selecting the right site for your operations is a bit more complex than that, and picking the wrong site can [...]

Radical uses for RFID Wal-Mart has big plans for RFID and some of the applications they are anticipating RFID will support will no less than reinvent the retail business model as we now know it. On June 14th, 2006 The University of Arkansas Information Technology Research Institute released its’ second paper on Wal-Mart Out of [...]

With the advent and rapid growth of Distance Learning in Logistics, learning more about topics in Logistics and Supply Chain Management has never been easier or more affordable than today. When I first got involved with logistics, there wasn’t even a formalized education stream for logistics in the traditional education system. Now, there are courses [...]

Many practitioners are currently coming to grips with the meaning of supply chain management and are ambitiously setting about implementing it in both the internal and external portions of their supply chains. For those of you still struggling with the concept, you may want to visit the CSCMP’s SCM Definitions page a good source for [...]