RFID Compliance: Suppliers Must Slap and Ship

From RFID Journal, Apr 2, 2004 ... Forrester Research advises Wal-Mart suppliers to devote their initial RFID deployment solely to meeting the retailer s requirements. By Jonathan Collins April 2 2004 If suppliers are to meet Wal-Mart's January 2005 deadline to include RFID EPC tags on pallets and cases they must focus just on adding RFID technology to their shipments and not simultaneously try to lower operating costs by restructuring operations around RFID according to a technology consulting and research firm based in Cambridge Mass ...