Manufacturing Industry
Furniture maker scores a victory with RFID: Victory Land Group, a Wal-Mart supplier, scored a return on its initial investment in radio-frequency technology and is ready to move beyond use of electronic product code/RFID tags.(RFID technology)
Packaging Digest, July, 2005 by Hartman, Lauren R.
Though it wasn't cited as one of Wal-Mart's Top 100, Victory Land Group, Inc. (VLG), a Schaumburg, IL, furniture manufacturer and importer, became one of only 37 suppliers to volunteer for early inclusion in the radio-frequency identification (RFID)-tagging program with Wal-Mart, in an advanced initiative with electronic product code (EPC) technology.
VLG had until 2006 or 2007 to begin shipping Wal-Mart EPC-tagged merchandise, because it wasn't part of the first wave of 100 suppliers required by the big retailer to do so by Jan. 1, 2005. But its plan for RFID compliance was to start early and work fast. It also had plans to construct a new distribution center. Even though it had no experience with RFID, VLG saw that building a new production facility could be...
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