Although Wal-Mart’s supply chain driven vision of RFID isn’t evolving quite as planned

That’s not stopping people from coming up with useful implementations for the tiny tags

Futurismic: RFID - bad for businesses, but great for beaches

For all of it’s resources, Wal-Mart apparently doesn’t have the rhythmeering or even engineering systems expertise to effectively help the ecosystem grow. Understanding the role of participants would allow Wal-Mart to have a greater influence by interacting with companies outside of their immediate supply chain who can contribute to the health of the ecosystem. The RFID ecosystem is much larger than Wal-Mart or the DOD.

Although compliance with Wal-Mart, the DOD, and the Metro Group (in Europe) is still the driving force behind RFID usage, closed-looped applications such as tracking at the pallet, case and item levels is gaining. “The business case and value proposition for RFID is being realized across many types of organizations.”

Industry Week

“The RFID market is poised for stronger growth during 2007 and 2008 due to end users’ increased acceptance of RFID as a valuable tool to increase efficiency in a number of applications,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Brendon Ouimette. “Asset management, inventory management, and work in process visibility applications will require the type of data management capabilities that RFID middleware provides.

Business Intelligence Network

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