RFID Business Process Automation Beats Slap and Ship Compliance ...

RFID Automation Beats Slap and Ship: ARC Study Shows Slap and Ship for RFID is Less Common than ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... 2005--The ARC Advisory Group conducted a Best Practices study in which ARC talked to 24 companies that were actively investing in EPC RFID (Electronic Product ...

... The ARC Advisory Group conducted a Best Practices study in which ARC talked to 24 companies that were actively investing in EPC RFID (Electronic Product Code Radio Frequency Identification). RFID tags can be applied at the packaging line or the DC. According to Steve Banker, Service Director for Supply Chain Management at ARC Advisory Group, "in our sample, 85 percent of the facilities where tags were applied were DCs. However, even when tags are applied at the DC, the term slap and ship does not fairly reflect what is going on at many DCs. There is both more automation, and more process variation, than has been generally recognized." ...

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