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RFID allows companies to gain control of their operations to a level unimaginable with previous identification techniques.
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RFID and Consumers: Understanding Their Mindset
Evaluating market perception enables companies to leverage the technology’s full potential and gain return on their investment.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is the reading of physical tags on single products and traded items such as cases, pallets, or re-usable containers. Combining this remote sensing technology with access to global standardised databases results in accurate product identification, in real time, at any stage in the supply chain.
RFID technology promises much for the retail and consumer products industry – cost savings, supply chain efficiencies and visibility, and better stock security. It also allows companies to gain control of their operations to a level unimaginable with previous identification techniques and will generate a data stream of physical movements as a byproduct of conducting business. This opens up crucial strategic opportunities.
Why Getting RFID Right is Critical
So how can you take advantage of these opportunities? Strategic and in-depth industry insight, which is needed to unlock the potential value of RFID, is only part of the picture. To realise this value, these capabilities must be balanced by thorough technological knowledge of what is both possible and impossible today, using the broadest pool of available solutions on the market. Companies need a roadmap that will help them navigate and migrate from reading a tag to leveraging real-time business as a strategic advantage.
Capgemini offers companies an opportunity to accelerate their RFID developments through an approach we call the Collaborative Business Experience. Backed by over three decades of industry and service experience, the Collaborative Business Experience is designed to help companies achieve better, faster, more sustainable results through seamless access to our network of world-leading technology partners and collaboration-focused methods and tools.
The Right RFID Solution
To help define your strategy and business rationale for RFID adoption, we recommend an approach that includes an initial assessment or Discovery Day, strategy development, and a feasibility study. To implement the strategy, equal attention must be paid to the RFID architecture and solution selection. Our experience at Capgemini indicates that an effective approach to RFID should include the following implementation steps:
- RFID/EPC Solution Selection and Proof of Concept (POC)
- RFID/EPC Pilot Implementation and Evaluation
- RFID/EPC Full Implementation and Rollout
Capgemini offers a number of RFID applications specific to retail and consumer product companies, including returnable load carriers, RFID and agents, RFID and Global Data Synchronisation, RFID store solution, manufacturer tagging, track and trace, and technical architecture and strategy.
Experience Counts
Our leadership in the RFID/Electronic Product Code (EPC) area is based on extensive experience that is continually recognised in the marketplace:
Capgemini is one of the pioneers of the EPC network vision, having participated in the AutoID consortium led by MIT before the transformation to EPC global.
Capgemini has developed RFID strategies, assessments and implementations for leading companies in the retail, consumer products, distribution and pharma industries.
We work with a number of leading RFID solution providers, offering a choice of non-proprietary hardware (tags/readers) and software (integration and applications).
We have a clear architectural view, linking RFID with other innovative technologies like Global Data Synchronisation, mobility and agents, and existing services such as Warehouse Management Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning and Transportation Management Systems.
More information on Capgemini’s comprehensive RFID solutions.