[/engl/] (submit me) ProRetail Club (archive of the sessions) Marketing researches (available only in russian) Job Ukrainian Retail Portal Our partners EHI Retail Institute European Retail Academy National Association of trade development and service Ukrainian Trade Guild Articles previous... Metro Expands RFID Pilot in Asia The retailer's new Tag It Easy program with Checkpoint Systems will enable 30 Chinese suppliers to tag goods bound for Metro stores in Germany. By Mark Roberti Metro, the world's fourth largest retailer, is expanding its Advanced Logistics Asia RFID pilot to include 30 Chinese suppliers. The company has teamed with Checkpoint Systems, a Thorofare, N.J.-based provider of radio frequency identification systems, to provide RFID labels for the participating suppliers. "We have been testing RFID in our supply chain from Asia since late 2005," says Gerd Wolfram, Metro Group Information Technology's managing director for advanced technologies. "We've been achieving good read rates, and everything has been working fine. So we decided to have a supplier event here in Asia and do a bigger test with more participants." Until now, Metro's Advanced Logistics Asia initiative has involved a third-party logistics provider, Fat Kee Stevedores, and a small Chinese supplier. The two companies have been applying UHF Electronic Product Code (EPC) tags to containers loaded with cartons of various goods to be exported, including pens and kitchen gadgets. At the Fat Kee facilities in China, the packages are pushed through an RFID portal. After the system reads the tags, software creates an electronic packing list, which is sent electronically to a Metro subsidiary in Hong Kong to be checked for accuracy. The list is then used to generate an advance shipping notice (ASN), which is sent to Metro headquarters. When the goods arrive at a Metro distribution center in Unna, Germany, the system reads the tags and checks them automatically against the ASN. The pilot was deemed a success, so Metro decided to expand the system to additional suppliers in Asia. Today, Metro is holding a meeting with its Hong Kong suppliers to explain how the pilot, known as "Tag It Easy," will be run. Suppliers will be able to access a secure Metro extranet called Metro Link, which will let them view their purchase orders. Each order will have an EPC and Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC) associated with it. Suppliers will then be able to request the RFID labels, which Checkpoint will ship free of charge for the three-month trial. Metro has standardized on UHF EPC Gen 2 tags to comply with all regional requirements (917-922 MHz for China, 920-925 MHz for Hong Kong and 865.6-867.6 MHz for Europe). The RFID tags on the labels, provided by Checkpoint, will store the EPC data. Because the suppliers don't have an RFID reader, the label will bear a bar code containing the SSCC. This 18-digit number, used to identify logistics units, will be read at several points along the supply chain from Hong Kong to Germany. In addition, suppliers will receive a bar-code reader and software, enabling them to scan the containers' bar codes, create a packing list and transmit the data to Metro's subsidiary in Hong Kong. Metro expects to use 30,000 RFID labels during the pilot. Wolfram says that if the project goes well-that is, if the tags can be read in Germany-Metro will likely expand the pilot by providing suppliers with a portable RFID reader or a mobile RFID portal. Suppliers will then be able to use this equipment to read the RFID tags applied to containers of goods for export, and to generate the packing list. "We will consider the pilot a success if we achieve high read rates in Germany for the 30,000 packages," Wolfram says, "and if we have positive feedback from our suppliers-if they say they would like to use this solution and integrate it into their shipping operations." www.rfidjournal.com Comment: Enter control text: Enter comment! predious... 10 последних комментариев Articles (archive of articles) 29-05-2007 | Trade chains Metro Expands RFID Pilot in Asia The retailer's new Tag It Easy program with Checkpoint Systems will enable 30 Chinese suppliers to tag goods bound for Metro stores in Germany.... more » 22-05-2007 | Trade Networks Do you have that in green? 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