Walmart RFID: WalMart Plans Next Phase Of RFID

From Information Week ... suppliers to implement radio-frequency identification technology just five months away, the retailer is thinking ahead to the next stages of its RFID strategy. ...

" ... With the deadline for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s 100 largest suppliers to implement radio-frequency identification technology just five months away, the retailer is thinking ahead to the next stages of its RFID strategy. Speaking Tuesday at a pharmaceutical industry supply chain conference in Washington, D.C., Simon Langford, global RFID strategy manager in Wal-Mart's information-systems division, said the retailer's largest 100 suppliers remain on track to have RFID systems in place to track products at the carton and pallet level starting Jan. 1 ... "