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From Innovations Report: “Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) promises to revolutionise stock management, but few applications exist so far. Now, European researchers are perfecting a platform to unlock the potential of RFID. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) promises to revolutionise retailing through advanced stock management, sophisticated promotions and supply chain optimisation. But cost-effective solutions have proved elusive [...]

Those of you who’ve been reading Supply Chain Network for awhile will be aware of my personal interest and ongoing coverage of green initiatives and alternatives as they relate to logistics and supply chain management. To me these projects have always just made sense as often these reductions in energy utilization both save expense dollars [...]

From RFID Journal: ” There was a minor and unmarked passing in the world of RFID last year. The blogger known only as “Green RFID Guy” announced that he had “essentially abandoned” his site about the environmental benefits of radio frequency identification. “What happened?” he asked. “Life, I guess. Sad but true.” But there’s good [...]

From RFID Update: “Sam’s Club has told its suppliers to apply RFID tags to individual products by October 31, 2010. That is one of several new RFID requirements that Sam’s Club communicated to suppliers in a letter dated January 7, 2008. Other requirements include case-level tagging by October 31, 2009, pallet-level tagging by the end [...]

From cnet.com: “Technology alone is rarely the key to unlocking economic value: companies create real wealth when they combine technology with new ways of doing business. Through our work and research, we have identified eight technology-enabled trends that will help shape businesses and the economy in coming years. These trends fall within three broad areas [...]

From vnunet.com: “Next year will witness the spread of RFID applications into familiar, everyday settings, while consumer electronics, wireless technologies and security requirements will continue to benefit from the integration of RFID. These are just some of the predictions from AIM Global, the worldwide industry trade association and self-proclaimed authority on automatic identification and mobility [...]

From RFID Journal: “Several fresh food providers are beginning to use plastic RFID-enabled pallets made by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS) rather than wooden pallets without RFID tags. Thus far, RFID has helped iGPS better manage the flow of its pallets, through more accurate and timely shipping and receiving records, while end users are still [...]

From RFID Consortium: “Seven companies from around the world today announced they have organized the RFID Consortium LLC to jointly license essential ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID) patents: 3M Innovative Properties Co. [NYSE: MMM]; France Telecom [NYSE: FTE]; HP [NYSE: HPQ]; LG Electronics [Korea Stock Exchange: 066570, London Stock Exchange: LGLD]; Motorola [NYSE: [...]

From RFID Journal: “Wal-Mart Canada is using RFID to reduce retail shelf out-of-stocks and improve inventory profitability. This is the largest pilot and deployment of the technology in Canada’s Retailing sector. Hear about some of the lessons they have learned during the deployment and the insights Wal-Mart and their vendors are getting from the data.” [...]

PRESS RELEASE – meco® group relies on You-R® OPEN software by RF-iT Solutions GmbH – Two companies join forces to pool their vast fashion industry expertise (Graz (A)/Weingarten (D)/Amsterdam (NL), 8 November 2007) – Graz, Austria-based technology experts RF-iT Solutions and the meco® group have signed a partnership agreement. The occasion was the RFID Journal [...]

Radio Frequency Identification continues to struggle to emerge from the proverbial swamp of technologies and take its’ rightful place as the next stage in the evolution of barcode product identification and EAS product security. Unfortunately this process seems to be taking much longer than expected and the most likely reason for this is that most [...]

US DOT FHWA: “The Office of Freight Management and Operations’ promotes the deployment of technology and the adoption of best practices to facilitate the smooth flow of goods on the Nation’s transportation system and across our borders. The Intermodal Freight Technology program conducts operational tests of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies, supports the development of [...]

From AIMglobal: “Even if we never see a full realization of the grand vision of “an Internet of Things,” where every item is RFID tagged and every tag can communicate over the Internet, the number of tagged items with a unique IP address may soon threaten to overwhelm current Internet addressing capabilities. The current method [...]

The CSCMP’s 2007 Annual Conference wrapped up today here in Philadelphia after running from from Oct 21st to 24th at the Philadelphia Convention Center. There were somewhere north of 3,380 people attending and it was again one of the largest gatherings of logistics and supply chain practitioners on the face of the planet. At the [...]

Near Field Communications or NFC for short is a technological application of RFID readers and tags embedded both in cellphones or handheld devices as well as other objects in the environment. The range on these devices is quite short, however the technology is meant to facilitate automated information sharing between the device and the tagged [...]

Many people continue to plod on daily simply dealing with the day to day customer service and supplier issues that come along with the operation of most supply chains. In some cases individuals at mid-size companies feel that they don’t have the size or excess budgets to take on any projects outside the day to [...]

From RFIDJournal: “Portuguese fashion retailer Throttleman has reduced the time items spend in the supply chain by five to seven days with the use of an RFID system. The solution, provided by systems integrator Creativesystems, and including hardware from Tagsys and Avery Dennison’s Paxar division, allows Throttleman to quickly identify items as they arrive from [...]

Over the last several years there have been many investigations of the application of RFID in various industries. Two themes which have emerged as key to the successful and cost effective implementation of this technology are high product value and high control/security requirements. Obviously, these are both present in the Jewellery Industry, making it a [...]