Supply Chain View

Last week I was talking to a colleague who had been involved in a pre-sales pitch with an RFID technology partner. He had come out of the presentation feeling very frustrated – he hadn’t felt he had learned any more about RFID than the very basic stuff he already knew, and certainly not enough to develop a proposition to the client on how to use the technology to solve his business problems.

So if you can’t tell your Active from your Passive tags, or you want to know the limitations of an RTLS (Real Time Locating System), or how much tags cost, what data they can hold and how close you need to be to read them… you could do a lot better then read the following articles at RFID Journal.

They have a number of good articles on their Getting Started page, including a 2-pager on What is RFID, and a longer article on The Basics of RFID Technology. For most supply chainers, these should give you more than enough to go on to work out whether the technology could fit into your business. Or not, because of course all supply chains are different.

Links

http://www.rfidjournal.com/
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/gettingstarted
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1339/1/129/
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1337/1/129/