Tagging Up: How to Make RFID Adoption a Retail Reality

These statistics prove that item-level RFID's streamlined operations, reduced labor costs and supply chain efficiencies can no longer be ignored. The RFID Research Center, which recently moved from its former home at the University of Arkansas to Auburn University earlier this year, found inventory accuracy can be raised from an average of 63 percent to 95 percent when RFID is adopted at the item level. To say inventory count rates increase significantly over the normal speed is an understatement — from 250 items per hour to more than 20,000. Out-of-stocks at retail can be cut in half.