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Has Wal-Mart gone too far?(Parting Shot)
Logistics Management (Highlands Ranch, Co.), August, 2003 by Cooke, James Aaron
When Wal-Mart talks, suppliers listen. So the retail industry was all ears when the giant retailer announced that it was ordering its top 100 suppliers to place radio frequency (RF) tags, or transponders, on shipping cartons and pallets by January 2005. RF tags emit a radio signal that transmits data to sensors, which then feed the information into computers in order to track a shipment's whereabouts. The RF tags Wal-Mart has in mind would be embedded with Electronic Product Codes (EPC) carrying detailed information about its shipments.
Many think Wal-Mart's decision to support EPC could prove to be a turning point in the application of radio frequency technology in logistics. After all, that company played a decisive role in driving the adoption of bar codes...
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