Tagging Up: How to Make RFID Adoption a Retail Reality

From the retailer's perspective, item-level RFID is an essential component to enable the supply chain visibility and inventory accuracy needed to know what's available, where it's located and how best to deliver it, helping meet consumer expectations anytime, anywhere.

How we talk about electronic product code (EPC)-enabled item-level tagging now has become a conversation based on necessity rather than a "someday" plan. One retailer recently noted at a RFID industry event that 70 percent of retailers rate themselves "average" or "below average" on their inventory management processes. That lack of inventory accuracy, visibility and tracking capability is one of the main causes for under-performance in the retail business.