Sysco RFID Pilot in Cold Chain: Alien Technology Used ...

Sysco RFID Pilot in Cold Chain: 3PL Solutions and Alien Technology® Announce Successful Field Test of RFID & Sensor-based System for Cold Chain Management: Successful field test deployed for SYSCO Corporation, North America’s largest food service marketing and distribution organization, demonstrates capability of RFID to transform the monitoring of temperature and environmental conditions during food transport with huge strides in documentation for food quality and safety ...

Sysco pilots RFID in their cold chain leveraging Alien Technology's RFID solutions with value chain services from 3PL Solutons ...

... "The DAX pilot program field testing was conducted by Alien Technology, 3PL Solutions and SYSCO in the SYSCO Frozen Foods and Produce supply chains and addressed dedicated, LTL, and inter-modal shipments. The RFID and Sensor-enabled system provides cost-effective Chain of Evidence documentation for food shipments, addressing anticipated regulatory requirements for better documentation of quality & safety control in food shipments, as well as improving methods to avoid waste and spoilage losses. Today, when food products leave the controlled environment of a well regulated distribution center, there are few cost effective mechanisms to insure and document continuous environmental control and access control... " ...

Alien Technology Corporation is a leading provider of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products for global customers in government, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and other industries. Using its patented manufacturing process, Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA®), Alien manufactures EPC tags in very high-volumes and at low cost. The company provides a family of RFID readers for a variety of applications including supply chain management, logistics, and anti-counterfeiting, to improve inventory management and reduce operating costs. Alien is an active member of EPCglobal.

3PL Solutions, Inc. supplies the Commercial Warehousing and Supply Management Industry with products and services for the Third Party Logistics Industry with a Commercial and Public Distribution Services focus. In close coordination with affiliate, Geometric Solutions, Inc., 3PL systems and services help manage millions of SKUs for thousands of manufacturers across the country. 3PL Solutions staff is comprised of seasoned professionals with a mandatory combination of skills encompassing Information Systems, Business Practices, and floor Operations. With years of hands-on experience in virtually all major product families flowing through the nations’ supply lines, 3PL Solutions cross-pollinates best practices from one industry focus to another, and enables customers to meld the best of all worlds into cost effective and unusually efficient and profitable operations.