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Is it necessary to achieve 100% read rates for an RFID project to succeed?

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Is it necessary to achieve 100% read rates for an RFID project to succeed?

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BB: If you’re implementing RFID to achieve 100% accurate shipments, then you have to read 100% of the tags being loaded on a trailer, so you can be sure that what is being loaded is what should be loaded, and nothing is left behind. If you are reading RFID tags at the pallet level only, you should be able to get 100%. But if you are reading tags at the case level, things could get tricky. If the best average you can get is less than 100%, then you have to ask – what is the potential cost or ramification to our company if some percent of outgoing product is not being recorded or checked for accuracy? Which items were not recorded? How will this affect inventory, customer satisfaction, and product traceability? If you can’t get 100%, you might consider using RFID pallet labels and associating them to the case labels at pallet-build time, and then reading only the pallet tags via RFID. Or, you might just improve on your barcode scanning process, and forget RFID. By the way, you’d still wa

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