CHICAGO — Wal-Mart's Chief Information Officer Linda Dillman grabbed attention a year ago, announcing that the world's largest retailer was insisting its top suppliers package products with radio-frequency identification tags. Today, the muscle of Wal-Mart appears to be making this happen, Investors.com reported.
Because of the vast amounts of information RFIDs are capable of holding, the tags are expected to streamline distribution and inventory issues, and save money, the article said.
Wal-Mart's Dillman put manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, and Unilever on notice that they and about 100 other suppliers would deliver RFID-tagged cases and pallets to distribution centers by the start of 2005.
She and her Wal-Mart team then met with suppliers and chip makers and cobbled out a strategy.
Barely a month ago, Wal-Mart said a test at a group of Dallas-area stores and distribution centers was working well.
"To date, no glitches -- only positive glimpses of what's to come" Dillman said in the article.
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