Many inventory inaccuracies exist in the retail world today. Most retailers have only about 65 percent accuracy into their inventory on a given day. Imagine trying to operate a business when one-third of the decisions you make are based in inaccurate data. Unfortunately, stockrooms at medical and research facilities are faced with problems very similar [...]

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 cost and complications of RFID implementations are dropping fast, bringing more and more retailers into a new age of efficiency and inventory transparency. Close to zero stock-outs, consolidated inventory and flawless multi-channel sales are the new reality for those who invest. But when will we know that we have reached the tipping point, where [...]

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 transportation and logistics sector are ahead of most industries when it comes to deploying technologies that will enable them to take advantage of the Internet of Things,  a future world where all items are connected by technologies like RFID. According to a global study conducted by Forrester Consulting, only 15 percent of respondents have [...]