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METRO Group Puts RFID Theory Into Practice, With Real-World Results

Overview METRO Group, the world's third-largest retailer, attracted a lot of attention when it announced plans to use RFID throughout its supply chain and for numerous applications at its famous Future Store in Rheinberg, Germany. Since then, it has gotten something much more beneficial from its RFID efforts: results. Helped by the performance of RFID readers from Intermec Technologies Corp., METRO Group is reaping the time savings, labor reductions and inventory benefits it hoped for when it began testing RFID. Encouraged by its system performance and real-world benefits, the retailer has gone beyond pilot phase and has gone live with RFID in its own daily supply chain operations.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Intermec Technologies	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007	Downloads	3
Format	Case Studies
Topics	RFID, Warehouse Inventory Management

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