Wal-Mart Spells Out RFID Vision
At the Retail Systems 2003/VICS Collaborative Commerce event in Chicago last week, Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman spoke extensively about the retailer's plans for using RFID.
June 16, 2003 - For the past few months, Wal-Mart has been working to get its suppliers to focus on RFID, so that they will be ready to tag cases and pallets when Wal-Mart is ready to begin using RFID. Last week, at the Retail Systems 2003/VICS Collaborative Commerce event in Chicago, which was co-located with RFID Journal Live!, Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman spoke extensively about Wal-Mart's plans for using RFID.
Dillman spoke with Michael Di Yeso, the Uniform Code Council's executive VP and chief operating office, in an effort to promote adoption of the Electronic Product Code. Di Yeso stressed that "this is not a UCC initiative. This is not a Wal-Mart initiative. This has to be an industry initiative."
He said that the retail industry "will not capitalize on the full benefit of RFID if it remains within the four walls of the enterprise. The only way we can capitalize on the full benefit of RFID is if the technology becomes open, is based on standards and is implemented by multiple sectors." He added that he and Dillman "really hope to indicate today that this industry is going to get behind EPC. There are a lot of flavors of RFID out there, but it is not just RFID anymore; it's EPC."
Dillman emphasized that view in her remarks. Here are excerpts from her speech:
EPC is retail's implementation of RFID. If you think about it in its simplest terms, you could put the EPC code as the identifier that you send from that little tag. It just makes it a much easier, more accurate way to get the same information in your supply chain and in your stores.
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Dillman spoke with Michael Di Yeso, the Uniform Code Council's executive VP and chief operating office, in an effort to promote adoption of the Electronic Product Code. Di Yeso stressed that "this is not a UCC initiative. This is not a Wal-Mart initiative. This has to be an industry initiative."
He said that the retail industry "will not capitalize on the full benefit of RFID if it remains within the four walls of the enterprise. The only way we can capitalize on the full benefit of RFID is if the technology becomes open, is based on standards and is implemented by multiple sectors." He added that he and Dillman "really hope to indicate today that this industry is going to get behind EPC. There are a lot of flavors of RFID out there, but it is not just RFID anymore; it's EPC."
Dillman emphasized that view in her remarks. Here are excerpts from her speech:
EPC is retail's implementation of RFID. If you think about it in its simplest terms, you could put the EPC code as the identifier that you send from that little tag. It just makes it a much easier, more accurate way to get the same information in your supply chain and in your stores.
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