June 21, 2004
800 Wal-Mart Stores to Be RFID Compliant by October 2005
Steve Brown, executive vice president of business development at Acsis, says that Wal-Mart's 200 tier 2 suppliers will have until the start of 2006 to be RFID compliant. Wal-Mart promises suppliers that RFID will be beneficial to all parties involved.
According to ComputerWeekly:
"RFID readers will now be deployed at the back door of its stores so that suppliers will know when goods have arrived. In addition, another RFID tag will be placed at the entrance to the sales floor so a supplier can tell what is on the sales floor and what is left in the backroom.
"This type of information will give suppliers a good read on their inventory and sales velocity and give them more demand signals for forecasting." Read more
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