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RFID article - Current implementation issues

I found an article titled “RFID Raises Serious Data Issues” in Database Trends and Applications trade journal. The fact that there are serious data issues within traditional ERP systems is far from a revelation, but the rest of the article discusses some of the integration and physical issues that RFID is having to overcome.

Published Sep 28 2004, 09:10 AM by shebert

Comments

Darrell said:

Our company has an RFID lab, RFID software, and experience helping several companies become Wal-Mart and DoD compliant. Sure the physical problems are annoying, but they are easily solved. I hate to say it, but the second half of the article is off the mark. Like normal consulting companies, the interviewee is talking about massive data issues and XML and everything, which has little bearing on a small supplier's core business - shipping products. I'm certain some large corps will throw money (for good or bad) at things like that, but it's not really necessary yet. And it sort of ignores the whole intercompany integration problems that have yet to be solved. Oh, that and he talks about individual item tagging, whereas Wal-Mart and the DoD only care about the pallet level right now. Is there any reason to jump the gun that much?

# September 28, 2004 6:38 AM

Steve Hebert said:

Darrell,

Thanks for the reply. We have not been faced with integrating RFID yet, but I'm trying to keep on top of the issues surrounding it in the mean time. I'd like to see more information (primarily data respository and synchronization approaches) surrounding the RFID tag and the communication up and down the supply chain that the interviewee alludes to in the article.

-Steve

# September 28, 2004 6:51 AM