Norm Korey

RFID is a simple, low-cost solution that allows tracking from factory to warehouse to store shelf, and even to the consumer's credit card. In addition to replacing traditional barcode technology, the uses of RFID tags are nearly endless. A logistics manager at an auto parts supplier recently told me that once a dashboard leaves his factory floor, he has no idea where that individual component is ­ a huge problem if one of his OEM customers has a pressing question about its whereabouts. This anecdote is just one of many disturbing stories I've heard as I meet with retailers, distributors, and logistics executives whose firms are unable to track everything from dashboards to razor blades to wing assemblies to precious stones. Does this need to happen? No. Not any more. N... (more)