Walmart RFID: AMR Research Finds Wal-Mart Suppliers Spent Only Minimum Required ...

From PR Newswire (press release) ... Today, AMR Research stated in a report that the top 100 WalMart suppliers have invested only $250 million on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems to ...

... Today, AMR Research stated in a report that the top 100 WalMart suppliers have invested only $250 million on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems to meet the minimum requirements for the January 2005 WalMart mandate deadline. The new AMR Research study shows that the 100 suppliers do not view RFID as a strategic investment and have patched systems together just enough to meet WalMart's compliance deadline. Wal-Mart suppliers have spent $1M to $3M each on RFID, which is enough to purchase tags, readers, and minimal software. In order to see any significant benefit, suppliers must integrate RFID into their applications, change existing software and enable large volumes of data to be stored. AMR Research estimates this would cost each supplier $13M to $23M. ...

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