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R.F.I.D.

"Seventy percent of all global
retailers will issue R.F.I.D.
mandates within 18 months."

to Habbersett, the bar code company Devault works with now is offering R.F.I.D. options to its customers.
For now though, Devault will watch as the big players iron out the
wrinkles. "Wal-Mart and their top 100 suppliers will get the bugs worked
out and the rest of us will come on board - maybe, says Habbersett."

today is in making it cost effective." Like any growing technology,
time and cost move in opposite directions, so a cost effective solution is well within reach.
And don't expect Wal-Mart to be on an island with its requirement. "Seventy percent of all global retailers will issue (similar)
R.F.I.D. mandates within 18 months," says Greaves. "It's a reality.
Ready or not
R.F.I.D. will permeate your supply chain."
John Greaves, leader of R.F.I.D. technology integration for DeAn enthusiastic proponent of R.F.I.D. and what it offers all inloitte Consulting, New York, N.Y., points out that R.F.I.D. is hardly dustries, Greaves is a frequent presenter at the growing number
new news. "It's been around for 50 years," he says. "The challenge of R.F.I.D. conferences throughout the country. He endorses the
Wal-Mart requirement and works with many
of their suppliers to take the mandate from
concept to reality. The common goal at this
point is finding a low-cost, high-volume chip
idea for meat & poultry...
that will perform well throughout the supwith real-time temperature monitoring,
ply chain.
tracking & tracing
Greaves says the technology is easily
adaptable to the meat and poultry sector.
࡯ Small, thin, flexible, RFID tags with integrated temperature or other
"R.F.I.D. goes a long way to addressing isenvironmental sensors
sues facing this industry," he says, includ࡯ Reusable, economical, easily attached to case, pallet or container
ing inventory management and traceability.
࡯ Ideal for storage and transport of perishable foods
By more accurately pinpointing a suspect
࡯ Competitively priced with data loggers
batch and removing only those products
containing suspected ingredients, proces࡯ Web-based portal service provides
supply chain visibility
sors aren't relegated to unnecessarily conanywhere, anytime
demning an entire run of a product.
To date, most meat and poultry compaDeveloped by
nies have come to rely on bar code techLaudis Systems,
nology to manage their inventory. Greaves
providers of turnkey
and others say R.F.I.D. is the next generaRFID solutions.
tion. "The awesomeness of R.F.I.D. with electronic product codes is a natural successor
to bar codes," he says.
One of the main obstacles for the food industry is finding a tag that doesn't cost more
than the product it is labeling. But like most
technologies, the cost will only decrease as
Laudis Systems, LLC
80 Newfield Avenue
researchers continue to refine the tags.
Edison, NJ 08837
Wal-Mart's mandate was merely an alarm
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www.laudissystems.com
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clock to rouse interest in the established
technology. Given the demand for enhanced
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