Wal-Mart's diktat last summer to its top 100 suppliers to put RFID tags on their shipments by the end of this month had little chance of success, according to Meta enterprise programme director Enrico Camerinelli.
Perhaps the most discussed project due to its sheer size is Wal-Mart in the US, which has been trialling RFID in its Texas stores, and which has placed a deadline of next January on all suppliers to use RFID tags within its supply chain.
Wal-Mart Stores' top merchandise suppliers are lifting sales of radio frequency identification devices as they race to comply with a January deadline from the world's largest retailer. Those companies are among the nearly 140 Wal-Mart suppliers...
It's also in the process of tripling the number of sites which receive the RFID tracked goods - currently 104 Wal-Mart stores and three SAM's clubs - which the retailer predicts will be implemented by October of this year.
In addition to the military, such retail giants as Target and Wal-Mart Stores are incorporating RFID into their distribution centres to streamline the flow of merchandise. A previous deadline called for certain suppliers to attach RFID tags to...
Wal-Mart is also doubling the number of suppliers that will use RFID, with its next 300 largest suppliers committed to having tagging systems live by the start of next year. RFID pioneer and corporate monolith Wal-Mart is speeding on with its...