May 17, 2004
Kimberly-Clark RFID Trial with Wal-Mart Succeeding So Far
Consumer-packaged goods manufacturer Kimberly Clark has successfully RFID tagged its shipments to the Wal-Mart distribution center in Sanger, Texas.
According to Information Week:
"The trial, which officially kicked off the last week of April, involves Gillette, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft Foods, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever and includes just 21 of the more than 100,000 products carried in a typical Wal-Mart Supercenter. Tagged pallets are being delivered to the Sanger distribution center and to seven Wal-Mart stores in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in the trial, with RFID readers at dock doors to scan shipments.
"Kimberly-Clark had the trial's first successful reading--a case of Scott paper towels was the first product shipment to pass under a Wal-Mart RFID scanner." Read more
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