Industry players form group to push RFID
HTT Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 11/1/2010 8:53:14 AM
Lawrenceville, N.J. - Several trade associations representing retailers, manufacturers and technology companies have banded together to guide the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in retail.
The advisory board for the Item Level RFID Initiative includes executives from Walmart, Kohl's, Macy's, Li & Fung and Dillards, among others.
Participating associations include NRF (National Retail Federation), RILA (Retail Industry Leaders Association), VICS (Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions), AAFA (American Apparel & Footwear Association), and CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals) as well as the standards organizations GS1 Canada and GS1 US.
"This initiative could change the way the retail industry does business - and could lead to the biggest supply-chain transformation since the introduction of the bar code," said Joseph Andraski, president ceo of VICS.
The effort will first focus on the apparel category.
"We believe it is time for the industry to come together to advance the use of this technology throughout the retail supply chain," said Peter Longo, president of Macy's logistics and operations.
According to research done by the University of Arkansas, RIFD technology offers inventory accuracy rates of more than 95%, up from an average of 62%, can count 5,000 items per hours (vs. 200 per hour using barcodes) and reduces out-of-stocks up to 50%.
The group will develop guidelines and standards to support the rollout of RFID.
"The retail sector stands on the brink of a key technology shift, and members of the Item Level RFID Initiative believe that now is the time for the entire industry to move toward a more efficient system for manufacturing, supplying, selling and buying products," said Art Smith, ceo, GS1 Canada.
More information is available at: http://vics.org/ILRI.
Not too surprising that the brilliant world of marketing geniuses would espouse a technology with irrefutable cancer ties. The same group once embraced tabacco smoking as a road to good health.
George Spigott - 2010-11-11 13:50:55 ESTWe need STRONG privacy issues resolved and not sweep under the rug befor the mass deployment of LINE ITEM RFID. Its not the same as barcodes because each EPC/FRID can be differant like a serial number. SO that mean when john doe buys a 12 pack of cokes or a pair of jeans those items can and more then likely will have differant numbers to indicate the ID of that specific item. With this system its much easier to use a RFID reader to track someone. More then likely it will be corperations and governments working together to do this tracking. The idea of a can on the side of the road can be scanned and tracked to the owner to be fined for littering is very well possible. Or corperate partners haveing used a standard system behind the scenes so that all the partners know who bought what and when they go to a partner store can track from the previous purchase databases. I for one will not buy from any of the places that do this willout a tag that is removed at purchase and/or can be removed after purchase with affecting return policy. These issues need to be addressed. I learned alot from book called spychips and on their site spychips DOT com.
James - 2010-11-09 03:22:43 EST-
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