Last week’s RFID Live show highlighted many new uses cases that continue to develop for RFID technology. Some of the keynote highlights included BP, which has added $150 million to its bottom line by deploying 37 RFID projects throughout the company. In addition, retailer American Apparel revealed that it is now nearly fully deployed at [...]
Fashion retailer Faconnable recently deployed item-level tagging at 70 of its branded retail stores and distribution centers on two continents, including its 12 retail locations and two DCs in the U.S. The retailer will consume more than two million RFID tags each year, and has been source tagging all the items it sells for nearly [...]
In order for RFID to firmly take hold in the retail sector, it’s imperative that products are tagged at the point of manufacture. Source tagging is becoming more common in apparel retailing as big retailers issue mandates to manufactures and as brands realize that they can benefit from tagging all products as opposed to partial [...]
RFID and RTLS technology is making big gains in healthcare. New solutions entering the market give healthcare providers the ability to operate more efficiently, control healthcare costs and improve patient care and safety. This week Intelligent InSites was selected to provide a software solution for the Department of Veterans Affairs. The five-year, $543 million contract [...]
There was strong enthusiasm for RFID among attendees at the NRF Big Show in New York last week. From Marks & Spencer deploying RFID for all apparel and home goods products at its 700 stores, to a host of smaller deals, the sentiment is strong that 2013 is the year for RFID and retail. In [...]
The item-level tagging movement is spreading from apparel and footwear to the medical industry. At least that’s the case at Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, where an entire showroom of research and medical supplies has been tagged to allow for greater ease of purchasing for its staff of scientists. The 700 square-foot [...]
The cash-strapped Social Security Administration is turning to RFID to track rack-mounted IT assets at its National Computing Center (NCC) in Woodlawn, Md. By deploying the RFID solution, SSA expects to reduce inventory cycle times by a factor of 10, while improving overall inventory accuracy by 20 percent. The contract for the software-based passive RFID [...]
The recent large-scale recalls of peanut butter and more than 100 related food items re-emphasizes the need for an RFID-based track and trace system for the food industry. Most RFID experts fully anticipate that food safety and quality represents the next major breakthrough market for RFID. Research firm IDTechEx says that the RFID market for [...]
Retail apparel tagging is trailblazing a path for overall RFID adoption. For every retailer like Macy’s that has gone public with its plan for deploying RFID, there are likely two more in stealth mode, preparing for a full rollout. At a recent RFID event, tag vendors revealed that there are “hundreds of millions” of tags [...]
Early this year I blogged about my shopping experience at a Clark’s retail store in Massachusetts. At the time I figured that the chain’s inability to quickly locate inventory in its back room was costing Clark’s up to $15 million a year in lost sales. I never thought I’d come across an example that screamed [...]
