Wal-Mart's Sam's Club Pushing Suppliers For RFID

Wal-Mart's Sam's Club Pushing Suppliers For RFID 0

Submitted by Weather Storm on Sunday January 20 2008, @07:19AM

Weather Storm writes "Information week has a story on Wal-Mart's push for suppliers to RFID tag their product shipments to it's Sam's Club distrubition center in Texas. Wal-Mart is apparently tired of its investments in radio frequency identification turning into a prolonged pilot study and is stepping up pressure on suppliers to comply with its 3-year-old inventory-technology mandate. The retailer says that beginning Jan. 30, it will charge suppliers a $2 fee for each pallet they ship to its Sam's Club distribution center in Texas that doesn't have an RFID tag. The retailer hasn't taken such a strong-arm approach yet with the more than 15,000 suppliers that still haven't complied with its request to tag pallets and cases headed for its Wal-Mart stores. Instead, it seems focused on turning its 700-store Sam's Club warehouse-outlet division into an example of RFID supply chain technology in action, down to requiring item-level RFID in 22 distribution centers by 2010. The division contributed $41.5 billion to Wal-Mart's $344.9 billion in revenue for its 2007 fiscal year."

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