RFID Case Study: Gillette and Provia
Part Two: Challenges and Lessons Learned
P.J. Jakovljevic - August 4, 2004

Challenges

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is constantly on everyone's lips and every relevant enterprise application vendor is hedging its bets towards becoming RFID-ready. Provia Software, a privately-held provider of supply chain execution (SCE) software solutions, too can tout the results of its RFID endeavors, as it has already put much effort in terms of the proof of concept in the field. Provia and other vendors are responding to the demand for an RFID-compliant solution by Wal-Mart, Target, Albertsons, the US Department of Defense [DoD], and so on...