Staples Business Depot isn’t new to RFID. Last year, the 270-store Canadian unit of Staples Inc., and a supplier of office products, business machines, office furniture and business services, ...

Supply chain optimization is now an imperative for corporations. Unfortunately, current track-and-trace functionality does not cover the end-to-end supply chain. The greatest impediment to a complete ...

Radio frequency identification is already established in the realm of defense logistics, helping to keep tabs on the mountains of materiel moved through the military services’ supply chain. But RFID ...

The project creates a prototype active RFID tracking system which makes use of mesh networking wherein only a single reader needs to be connected physically to a PC. The project creates a prototype ...

As the logistics industry looks toward ever-increasing efficiency and automation in supply chains, the potential for active track-and-trace devices has never been greater. Compared to legacy ...

Gulf States Toyota, a distributor for 145 Toyota dealers in five states, has tapped an active RFID tracking system from WhereNet Corp. to locate and process more than 190,000 vehicles a year at its 84 ...

Gulf States Toyota, a regional Toyota distributor for 145 dealers, has selected IBM and WhereNet Corp. to provide an active RFID tracking system for processing more than 190,000 cars annually. Gulf ...

Radio-frequency identification has ushered the U.S. military's global supply chain into the 21st century. That was clear in the massive logistics operations last year for the Iraq war as the military ...

RFID technology has had a significant impact on the global healthcare industry. The adoption of RFID tracking systems has been useful in reducing human efforts and errors in maintenance and control of ...

Due to the attention given to RFID for supply chain compliance, companies often lose sight of the fact that RFID can play an integral role in improving the efficiency of many day-to-day manufacturing ...