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Walmart Requires Rfid Tags Do you do business with Walmart? Soon, all suppliers to Walmart will be required to affix special radio frequency identification, or RFID tags onto all cases and pallets. Many of the top suppliers are still trying to figure out all this out. How will these new tagging requirements affect them, as well as the effort necessary to meet the goal? Several leading suppliers acknowledge it will be a huge effort. Once again contract packagers across the national may be called upon to assist in this tagging challenge. As these new scope of work requirements are really no different than changes in the marketplace during the 1980′s when Sol Price opened the first Price Club warehouse stores. Clients are asking for something a little different and until they can find or develop manufacturing systems to handle the problem contract packagers may have the least cost, most effective, and quickest solution to manage the opportunity. Walmart has identified several key advantages to having these RFID tags used… - Better tracking and moving of inventory - Faster receiving and shipping - Improved quality inspection - Fewer out-of-stock items resulting in improved shopper satisfaction - Greater predictability in product demand - Better value for shoppers as efficiencies occur - The right products, in the right stores, at the right prices The RFID tags are not without problems today and Walmart has advised their 20,000 suppliers that they will work with them to address and potential problems: - Tags cost thirty cents today and Walmart hopes that the price will be driven down to the $0.10 range as more and more suppliers purchase them - Lack of agreed upon industry standard - Smart Tag technology is far from perfect, as about 20% of today’s tags do not function properly - Physical limitations of tags still exist, as tags can not be read through liquids or metals - Nylon conveyor belts and other radio frequencies can disrupt the tags transmissions in warehouses Walmart is pushing the envelope of today’s tag technology before this technology is mature. Suppliers too are challenged by the equipping of warehouses and trucks with devices to read data from the tags. These devices will have to have integrated readers that can return real-time information to corporate computer networks. This means that there will be additional costs related to hiring tech consultants and additional hardware. Walmart is asking nothing more creative than Sol Price did when he started selling multi-packs of product or larger size containers. These companies have pushed the edge of the envelope out for the whole industry. Contract packagers were there providing special handling and multi-pack services for warehouse club stores then, and many within our industry will be there this year for Walmart’s RFID tags special handling services as well. Finding solutions for uncharted new packaging technology is what many contract packagers, including Aaron Thomas Company, do best. CNBC reported through MSN Money recently wrote, “Do you speak RFID? Get used to it. This is the tech acronym most likely to get big media play in 2004. It stands fro Radio Frequency Identification Tracking, and with Walmart, the Pentagon, Visa, and American Express behind it, the technology will generate a lot of excitement.” Sounds a lot like what we read about Y2K a few years back. Four public companies were identified to watch: Zebra Technologies and Printronix as they are both bar-code printer makers that are expanding into RFID printing, Checkpoint Systems a maker of integrated systems for retail security systems, and Symbol Technology a maker of the wireless networks needed to collect data from RFID tags.
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Walmart Éilíonn RFID Clibeanna An bhfuil a dhéanann tú gnó le Walmart? Go gairid, Beidh gach soláthraí le Walmart bheith ag teastáil chun affix aitheantais minicíocht raidió speisialta, nó Clibeanna RFID ar gach cás agus pailléid. Go leor de na soláthróirí is fearr fós ag iarraidh a dhéanamh amach gach amach seo. Conas a bheidh na ceanglais nua seo a chlibeáil i bhfeidhm orthu, chomh maith leis an iarracht is gá chun freastal ar an sprioc? Admhaíonn roinnt soláthraithe le rá go mbeidh sé iarracht ollmhór. Arís conradh pacáisteoirído ar fud an náisiúnta a ghlaofar air chun cuidiú leis an dúshlán seo clibeála. Toisc go bhfuil na raon nua de riachtanais oibre i ndáiríre aon éagsúla ná athruithe ar an margadh i rith na 1980í nuair a d'oscail Sol Praghas an chéad Chlub Praghas siopaí stóras. Cliaint ag iarraidh rud éigin a bhí beagán difriúil agus go dtí gur féidir iad a aimsiú nó córais déantúsaíochta a fhorbairt chun déileáil is féidir leis an pacáisteoirído conradh fhadhb an gcostas is lú, is éifeachtaí, agus réiteach is tapúla chun an deis a bhainistiú. Tá roinnt buntáistí tábhachtacha a aithníodh Walmart ar a bhfuil na clibeanna RFID a úsáidtear ... - Rianú níos fearr agus gluaiseacht de fardal - A fháil níos tapúla agus loingseoireachta - Iniúchadh cáilíochta feabhsaithe - Thuairiscigh níos lú lasmuigh den stoic míreanna a eascraíonn i sásamh shopper feabhsaithe - Intuarthacht níos mó ar an éileamh a táirge - Luach níos fearr do shiopadóirí mar a tharlaíonn éifeachtúlachtaí - Na táirgí ceart, i siopaí ceart, ag na praghsanna ceart Níl na clibeanna RFID gan fadhbanna lá atá inniu ann agus Walmart Tá comhairle a 20,000 soláthróirí go mbeidh siad ag obair leo chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar fhadhbanna féideartha: - Clibeanna costas tríocha cent lá atá inniu ann agus tá súil Walmart go mbeidh an praghas a thiomáint síos go dtí an $0.10 raon soláthróirí is mó agus níos mó a cheannach dóibh - Easpa comhaontaíodh caighdeán tionscal - Tá teicneolaíocht Clib Cliste i bhfad ó foirfe, mar gheall ar 20% clibeanna lae inniu nach bhfuil ag feidhmiú i gceart - Teorainneacha fisiceacha na clibeanna ann go fóill, mar nach féidir clibeanna a léamh trí leachtanna nó miotail - Is féidir criosanna iompair níolón agus na minicíochtaí raidió eile cur isteach ar na tarchuir clibeanna i stórais Walmart Tá brú ar an gclúdach na teicneolaíochta chlib lae inniu sula bhfuil an teicneolaíocht aibí. Soláthraithe mbeidh dúshlán ró ag trealmhú stórais agus leoraithe le feistí chun sonraí ó na clibeanna a léamh. Beidh na feistí go mbeadh léitheoirí comhtháite gur féidir eolas réad-ama ar ais chuig líonraí ríomhaireachta corparáideach. Ciallaíonn sé seo go mbeidh costais bhreise a bhaineann le comhairleoirí a fhostú ardteicneolaíochta agus crua-earraí breise. Walmart é ag iarraidh rud ar bith níos cruthaithí ná Sol Praghas raibh nuair a thosaigh sé ag díol il-pacáistí táirge nó ar a gcoimeádáin méid níos mó. Na cuideachtaí a bhrú ar an imeall an clúdach amach don tionscal ar fad. Pacáisteoirído Conartha bhí ann ag soláthar láimhseáil speisialta agus seirbhísí il-pacáiste le haghaidh siopaí chlub stóras ansin, agus beidh go leor laistigh dár dtionscal a bheith ann i mbliana le haghaidh clibeanna RFID Walmart ar seirbhísí láimhseála speisialta chomh maith. Tá réitigh le haghaidh teicneolaíocht pacáistiú uncharted nua Lorg cad pacáisteoirído conartha go leor, lena n-áirítear Aaron Thomas Cuideachta, a dhéanamh is fearr. CNBC tuairiscíodh trí MSN Airgead déanaí scríobh, “An bhfuil tú ag labhairt RFID? Faigh a úsáidtear chun é. Is é seo an acrainm ardteicneolaíochta is dócha a fháil ag na meáin mór i 2004. Seasann sé Radaimhinicíochta fro Rianú Aitheantais, agus le Walmart, an Pentagon, Visa, agus American Express taobh thiar dó, Beidh an teicneolaíocht a ghiniúint a lán de excitement.” Fuaimeanna a lán cosúil le cad a léamh againn faoi Y2K cúpla bliain ar ais. Sainaithníodh ceithre chuideachtaí poiblí chun féachaint ar: Teicneolaíochtaí séabra agus Printronix mar go bhfuil siad an dá lucht printéir barra-cód a leathnú isteach i priontáil RFID, Córais Seicphointe déantóir de chórais chomhtháite do chórais slándála miondíola, agus Siombail Teicneolaíocht déantóir na líonraí gan sreang ag teastáil chun sonraí a bhailiú ó clibeanna RFID.