Ingenuity at work: A great RFID business case in retail with UHF Workabout Pro - Community Blog - Blogs. Auchan Group, a famous retail company, has just introduced a high value RFID plastic crate tracking solution, integrated by Orange Business Services.
We are proud the Workabout Pro UHF RFID is part of this innovative solution, we have delivered several hundreds of units for this project, and hopefully some more to come next year. This solution is a good example of value created through ingenuity. When speaking about value creation, it is always difficult to calculate all the benefits, many times, unexpected benefits do occur. This is the case here, where is it quite easy to calculate the benefits of better plastic crate management (reduce lost crates, faster rotation of assets,...) but many more difficult to calculate: better hygien, looks nicer in supermarket, gain in waste management, CO2 emission reduction and possibility to associate the content to the crate, opening a high level of traceability for food products.
Here are the details of this communication: Pierre. Manifestations. Big Data. Projets RFID du FUI. Rfid Awards. Showcasing the best RFID deployments, products and research Entry Forms (MS Word format) The RFID Journal Awards were established to recognize companies that distinguish themselves by their successful creation or use of radio frequency identification (RFID).
Deadline: All entries must be completed and submitted no later than midnight on Jan. 31, 2014. To enter: GS1 Library. Feels Good. Invité par GS1 France à témoigner lors d'un atelier sur le thème "Supervisez en réseau vos évènements logistiques", DHL Supply Chain, n°1 mondial de la prestation logistique a présenté le déploiement de son projet RFID/EPCIS en partenariat avec son client Métro et son partenaire technologique Neopost ID.
Un contexte propice au déploiement Avec 1,4M de palettes livrées par an sur 6 entrepôts logistiques et 91 magasins, les enjeux de productivité et de performance logistique sont particulièrement critiques. Plusieurs études et expérimentations ont alors été entreprises dès 2006 afin d’évaluer la possibilité d’augmenter le taux de service des livraisons en magasin via la technologie RFID. En l’absence de standard à cette époque, DHL Supply Chain a activement participé aux travaux GS1 afin de disposer d’une solution standard, et qui puisse être rapidement déployée et exploitée. Retrouvez le compte-rendu complet de l'atelier "Supervisez en réseau vos évènements logistiques" ICI.
RFID Infographic. So-called "infographics" are pretty hot right now, and SCDigest believes they are especially useful for many supply chain topics.
What is an infographic? Though there are certainly more official definitions, we'd say an infographic is simply a way to present a range of information (meaning, not a more limited scope data point, such as a pie chart) in a highly visual form, with the ultimate goal in effect of telling a story from several perspectives. No question, at their best, infographics are highly effective. Presented below is a pretty good example of an infographic that accompanied a press release from RFID technology provider ThingMagic that announced a new RFID reader module (meaning a device that can be embedded in other pieces of equipment, such as a smart phone) that offers a smaller size and greater performance than previous modules.
The Internet of Things. The EPCNetwork or, as some have called it, the Internet of Things is often overlooked because so many manufacturers are focused on getting RFID/EPC tags on their products.
Now is the time to turn your attention to the future. All of the benefits of RFID/EPC that everyone keeps touting become just noise if we do not have a universal means to share them. More than a century ago, pioneering industrialists built railroads to speed communication and transportation; but at first these systems did not connect. When these rail entrepreneurs hammered the famous Golden Spike hooking together the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines, the true power of rail technology was unleashed. The EPC Network promises to be RFID's Golden Spike. Electronic Product Codes (EPCs) are stored on RFID tags and identify manufacturer, product, and a specific item serial number. How data exchange works today I am working with clients who are facing mandates from multiple retailers. Enter the EPC Network. Logistics Solutions 2013. EURIDICE. WINGS. PRODIGE. SCARMOR. NLP Norvège. Norsk Lastbærer Pool (NLP)—an organization established by Norwegian consumer goods manufacturers and retailers to manage a nationwide pool of pallets—is transitioning Norway's consumer goods sector to RFID-tagged plastic pallets and totes, leased by NLP, each with EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags.
In February 2011, as part of that transition, the organization intends to pilot the use of RFID handheld readers and fixed reader portals at the factories of snack-food company Maarud and sausage producer Finsbråten, as well as at two distribution centers for retail chain Coop. NLP was established in 2006 as an organization for reducing the environmental footprint of the logistics operations within the Norwegian fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) supply chain.
The RFID pilot is being managed by Hrafn (the Norse word for raven, symbolizing the two birds of Odin), an RFID consultancy and the pilot's chief architect. 4S Services. Business model for administering platforms for sharing logistics.