University of Washington selected CBORD’s Foodservice Suite to serve its 40,000 students and 4,700 board plan participants. The school will make use of modules for “menu management, inventory management (including PDA-enabled data entry for onsite inventory tracking), CBORD’s nutrient database, nutritional accounting, event management, and interfaces for order transmissions to outside vendors, point-of-sale terminals, and […]

Working together, Avery Dennison RIS and Vue will combine core competencies to offer a seamlessly integrated item-level RFID package for moderate- and high-end retailers. That’s the gist of the announcement by Avery Dennison and Vue, which announced their marketing alliance. Both parites will team up to market Avery’s braod line of item-level RFID tags and […]

Seven companies are now licensing Savi Technology’s active RFID technology for supply chains in what the company calls a “sign of a maturing market” and “confirmation that standardization will continue to turbo charge this marketplace.” Savi, a wholly owned subsidiary of bigwig contractor Lockheed Martin, launched its ISO I8000-7 program in late August. Broad Participation […]

RFID systems provider AXCESS International is slashing prices post-holiday for its comprehensive physical asset management suite. The Asset Activator Compete System with Dual-Active RFID Tags, Infrastructure, Middleware, and Scalable Software automatically churns out location information and inventory, making tracking easier. But is lower pricing a response to low demand? Based on a roundabout-PR-speak explanation, we […]

VeriChip (a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions), earned a patent today for its portable RFID asset location system. The patent, No. # 7,116,230, combines RFID tagging technology with a portable receiver to track the location of assets within a fixed setting, such as a building or warehouse. Rather than relying on a network of fixed […]

Retailers today need information in real-time to reduce inventory and other costs across the supply chain. That’s a no brainer. But it’s also the impetus behind Salt Lake City-based Alpha Bay Corporation’s new, more advanced Adaptive Integrated Retail System (AIRS), which it will roll out at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) 96th Annual Convention and […]

Inspecting meatpacking plants doesn’t sound Glamorous. Especially not when your warehouse comes under fire for churning out rotten meat. But RFID is being tested to improve supply chain operations in this area, too, reports RFID Journal. A project funded by the federal government in Germany, which features an RFID-based system using laser beams to recognize […]

Counterfeit drugs aren’t just a big problem in the United States. Europe, too, has a high number of incidences and is doing an equally vigorous job investigating ways to thwart fraudsters. It’s an effort by authorities that includes researching RFID to track and trace medicines. According to European news outlet livescientist.com, Frost & Sullivan finds […]

With the counterfeit drug trade hitting hard against Europe’s pharmaceutical industry, securing the supply chain is becoming an increasingly important and lucrative business. The European Union needs to determine a standard method of identification for drugs, simplifying trade between member countries, suggests a report by Frost & Sullivan. The same report predicts that European market […]

IBM’s clients will be able to securely share and analyze accurate and real-time data generated by RFID tags thanks to the computer Goliath’s new WebSphere RFID Information Center. The technology is based on a recently completed EPCglobal standard called EPCIS, which provides a standard way to securely communicate the data created by sensors and RFID […]