Moving RFID From Niche Application to Broad-Based Supply Chain Solution
Experts are of the opinion that a hundred million dollars need to be invested in research on RFID, over the next five years. More and more companies are experimenting with RFID, for the purpose of automating their business processes. A recent academic convention was chaired by Miles at MIT. Over 100 leaders in RFID, from businesses and well-known research universities, across the world gathered for this convention. They discussed the role of business and researchers in RFID. Among the diverse views and viewpoints, an agreement was reached on one issue - that a variety of skills and academic disciplines are needed to move RFID beyond the slap-and-ship solutions, in use right now. In order to get transparency across supply chain, it is very clear that everyone has to be working together. There has to be a concurrence between the material handling personnel and the information technology people. Representatives from the material handling industry have begun working on RFID initiatives concerning national and international unit load and transport standards.
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