April 13, 2004
Suppliers, Wal-Mart Not in Agreement
A new Forrester Research study shows that while Wal-Mart may think that implementing RFID is the next logical step in supply chain efficiency, many of its suppliers disagree. The suppliers claim that RFID will still not help them match supply to demand.
Food.com reports:
"The consensus among the manufacturers interviewed, it seems, is that production networks still suffer from a lack of visibility with customers and suppliers, and it is this that results in mismatches between supply and demand.
"'The problem that we have is that the vast majority of retail clients don't have ways to manage their store inventory, so they walk around the store trying to find the voids,' said a food manufacturer. 'Once, we visited one of their stores, which had stock-outs for their most profitable, best-selling item. We went back and realized that they weren't ordering that product; they were ordering the wrong stuff.'" Read more
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