Tom Ryan is a consultant in the fields of logistics, supply chain, and transportation solutions. He is currently Principal, tkr Consulting Associates. He can be reached at tomryan@tkrconsulting.com.
If RFID succeeds at the case level, what can you expect? A lot of data. Besides the IT bandwidth, data storage, data aggregation and processing issues, does this matter? If RFID succeeds, all this data means adequate information management has kicked in. Unfortunately, this will be a problem for manufacturing or processing operations, not just distribution centers.