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News For The Week Of Oct. 6
U.S. Military Clarifies RFID Mandate
Military Edict: Use RFID by 2005
Savi Adds Forecasting and Planning
Vendor Upgrades RFID Platform
RF Code Opens Software Platform
FEATURED STORY
Linking RFID with Web services
OPINION
The Tipping Point
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TOP NEWS
U.S. Military Clarifies RFID Mandate
Like Wal-Mart, the U.S. Department of Defense is still working through many of the details of how it will deploy RFID technology. But in an exclusive interview with RFID Journal, Maurice Stewart, the deputy chief of the DOC Logistics AIT Office, provided more information about the DOD's plans to require all suppliers to put RFID tags on shipments beginning in 2005.
Full Story
Military Edict: Use RFID by 2005
The U.S. Acting Under Secretary of Defense, Michael W. Wynne, has sent a memo to senior military officials announcing an ambitious plan to require all Department of Defense suppliers to use active and passive RFID tags on shipments to the military by January 2005.
Full Story
Savi Adds Forecasting and Planning
Savi Technology provides active (battery-powered) RFID tags and the software-Savi Asset Management System and Savi Transportation Security System-to enable its customers to track shipping containers and other large assets. Customers have been asking for additional capabilities, such as the ability to forecast demand and to modify security rules on the fly. Savi has responded by partnering with GAINSystems to provide those capabilities.
Full Story
Vendor Upgrades RFID Platform
Supply chain management software developer GlobeRanger has released the latest generation of its wireless platform, iMotion 4.0. This version aims to simplify the collection of real-time data from RFID readers at the edge of the enterprise and transform that data into actionable information. To advance that objective, the Richardson, Texas-based company also formed an alliance with Manhattan Associates, a supply chain execution software provider.
Full Story
RF Code Opens Software Platform
RF Code of Mesa, Ariz., has been selling active (battery-powered) RFID tags and software systems to track objects carrying those tags since 1997. Now that the market for passive tags is taking off, the company is opening up its software infrastructure to passive RFID technology from other hardware vendors. RF Code will sell its TAVIS software platform separately from its own hardware for the first time.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Linking RFID with Web services
Radio frequency identification and Web services are just beginning to prove their business value. But together, the two technologies could play an integral role in managing information in future supply chains. Even today, companies that provide supply chain and RFID products are exploring ways that Web services can help maximize the value of information generated from RFID systems.
Premium Content
OPINION
The Tipping Point
The Department of Defense's decision to require all of its suppliers to put RFID tags on pallets and cases shipped to military depots beginning in 2005 is the tipping point that will drive widespread adoption of RFID technology. There will still be people who doubt that RFID is ready for primetime, but clearly the DOD-and Wal-Mart-wouldn't be investing in the technology if it didn't work and didn't provide significant benefits.
Full Story
U.S. Military Clarifies RFID Mandate
Like Wal-Mart, the U.S. Department of Defense is still working through many of the details of how it will deploy RFID technology. But in an exclusive interview with RFID Journal, Maurice Stewart, the deputy chief of the DOC Logistics AIT Office, provided more information about the DOD's plans to require all suppliers to put RFID tags on shipments beginning in 2005.
Full Story
Military Edict: Use RFID by 2005
The U.S. Acting Under Secretary of Defense, Michael W. Wynne, has sent a memo to senior military officials announcing an ambitious plan to require all Department of Defense suppliers to use active and passive RFID tags on shipments to the military by January 2005.
Full Story
Savi Adds Forecasting and Planning
Savi Technology provides active (battery-powered) RFID tags and the software-Savi Asset Management System and Savi Transportation Security System-to enable its customers to track shipping containers and other large assets. Customers have been asking for additional capabilities, such as the ability to forecast demand and to modify security rules on the fly. Savi has responded by partnering with GAINSystems to provide those capabilities.
Full Story
Vendor Upgrades RFID Platform
Supply chain management software developer GlobeRanger has released the latest generation of its wireless platform, iMotion 4.0. This version aims to simplify the collection of real-time data from RFID readers at the edge of the enterprise and transform that data into actionable information. To advance that objective, the Richardson, Texas-based company also formed an alliance with Manhattan Associates, a supply chain execution software provider.
Full Story
RF Code Opens Software Platform
RF Code of Mesa, Ariz., has been selling active (battery-powered) RFID tags and software systems to track objects carrying those tags since 1997. Now that the market for passive tags is taking off, the company is opening up its software infrastructure to passive RFID technology from other hardware vendors. RF Code will sell its TAVIS software platform separately from its own hardware for the first time.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
Linking RFID with Web services
Radio frequency identification and Web services are just beginning to prove their business value. But together, the two technologies could play an integral role in managing information in future supply chains. Even today, companies that provide supply chain and RFID products are exploring ways that Web services can help maximize the value of information generated from RFID systems.
Premium Content
OPINION
The Tipping Point
The Department of Defense's decision to require all of its suppliers to put RFID tags on pallets and cases shipped to military depots beginning in 2005 is the tipping point that will drive widespread adoption of RFID technology. There will still be people who doubt that RFID is ready for primetime, but clearly the DOD-and Wal-Mart-wouldn't be investing in the technology if it didn't work and didn't provide significant benefits.
Full Story
