Who Killed RFID?
Unfortunately, the Wal-Mart initiatives — and, to a lesser extent, the DoD efforts — have squashed any independent interest of experimenting with this technology in the supply chain, Doug Standley, an analyst with Deloitte Consulting who covers RFID technology, told CRM Buyer. “The results for vendors complying with the mandates so far have been disappointing,” he noted. “RFID has been given a bad reputation by Wal-Mart, which has branded RFID around chip-based passive technology,” Standley added. However, a growing body of research, product development and pilot project deployments are finding that significant value can be extracted from an RFID investment in the supply chain, he commented.
