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September 26-28, 2006 • Chicago • Lincolnshire Marriott Resort  Register Now  |
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RFID Journal Industry Summits
The complete conference agenda is presented below. To view conference content by vertical industry, click on the appropriate link.
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| September 26 |
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| PRE-CONFERENCE |
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| 12:00 pm |
Pre-conference seminar opens
Working Lunch: RFID Basics
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| 12:45 pm |
Break |
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| 1:00 pm |
Pre-conference seminar continues
RFID Journal University
RFID Legal Preconference
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| 5:00 pm |
Day 1 concludes—pre-conference adjourns |
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| September 27 |
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| CONFERENCE |
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| 7:00 am |
Registration opens
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| 8:00 am |
Continental breakfast
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| 8:45 am |
Welcome and Introduction
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RFID: A Global Update
EPCglobal US has brought together global companies from all industries to help achieve mass adoption of EPC/RFID technology. In this session, you'll hear about the progress being made towards adoption of EPC/RFID in Europe,
Asia, and the Americas. You;ll also learn about the progress EPCGlobal subgroups are making toward creating standards for data sharing among companies in specific industries.
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| 9:30 am |
Are RFID Privacy Best Practices Enough?
Industry leaders have proposed a set of best practices around protecting consumer privacy when using RFID
technologies. But are these enough? Or does the technology need a foolproof way to protect consumers? Or
is legislation required? Our panel of experts examines these issues and addresses ways to avoid becoming the
subject of negative headlines.
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Paula Bruening, Center for Democracy & Technology
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Sandra Hughes, Global Privacy Executive, Proctor & Gamble Co.
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Elliott Maxwell, RFID Consultant & Fellow, Center for the
Study of American Government, Johns Hopkins University
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| 10:10 am |
Refreshment break in Exhibit Hall
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| 11:00 am Sponsored breakout sessions |
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 Retail/CPG:
Using RFID to Gain Insight with Out-of-Stock and Promotions
While retailer RFID mandates may initiate RFID tagging
programs, RFID gives new insights into the operations of your end to end supply chain. These continual "micro views" of store operations have not been possible before RFID. T3Ci has worked with 25 of the leading CPG companies including 6 of the 8 early adopters. In this talk, they will discuss key insights gained from their promotional compliance and out of stock projects.
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Understanding how to gain insight that can go beyond
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How to establish ROI opportunities to justify the
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 Pharmaceutical: Where and How RFID Will be Used
Based on their recent market analysis study on global asset and transaction management systems in the pharmaceutical supply chain, VDC, will share with attendees where the benefits lie beyond the current compliance mandates and how those varying benefits will determine the future use of the technology in the pharmaceutical sector.
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 Manufacturing:
Battery Assisted Passive (BAP) Tags: Tthe "Best of Both Worlds"
Between high performance, reliability and functionality offered by active RFID tags at prices closer to those of passive tags, battery-assisted passive tags are the sensible solution. Breakthrough performance, uniquely enabled by battery-assisted passive tags and readers, include 100 meter read range, 100 percent read-write accuracy, 64 Kbit user read-write memory and compatibility with EPC standards. The rich feature set, brought forward by battery-assisted passive technology at compelling price points, enables a number of critical applications in manufacturing.
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Understanding how to gain insight that can go beyond
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How to establish ROI opportunities to justify the
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 Aerospace:
Combining RFID with Bar Codes and Other Auto-ID Technologies
RFID is not the answer to every problem in the aviation industry. Companies looking to track parts have found that RFID needs to be used alongside 2-D bar codes and other auto-ID technologies. Our panel of experts explains when to use each technology and how to integrate these technologies to deliver true business benefits.
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Michael Saunders, Director of Aviation, Industry Solutions,
Symbol Technologies, Inc.
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Insights into when to use RFID and when to use other technologies |
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Best practices for integrating RFID and 2-D bar codes |
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Lunch in Exhibit Hall
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| 1:45 pm Summit Breakout Sessions |
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Retail/CPG:
How to Leverage RFID Supply-Chain Data
Though not among Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers, Hampton Products was one of the first companies to comply with RFID tagging mandates from retail customers. The company has been among the most innovative in analyzing RFID data provided by its supply-chain partners and has developed an in-house application to analyze and extract value from the information. In this thought-provoking presentation, Hampton Products' vice president and chief information officer, Brian Millsap, discusses the challenges of gathering and analyzing RFID data, how his company is using the data collected and how other companies can benefit from a similar approach.
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Insights into what RFID data is available and how it can be analyzed |
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An understanding of how RFID data can be used to improve supply-chain operations today and in the future |
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Pharmaceutical:
Lessons from Item-Level Tagging Used for Future Gen 2 Conversions
Purdue Pharma,the pharmaceutical leader for item-level tagging, will share what they have learned about the relative strength and weaknesses of UHF tags in the pharmaceutical supply chain, the challenges they overcame and still face, and where they are looking to head in the future with Gen 2 tags at the item level.
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Insights into the technical issues surrounding the use of UHF Gen 2 technology to track pharmaceutical drugs |
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An understanding of the performance of Gen 2
EPC tags versus Gen 1 |
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Manufacturing:
Coping With the Cost of Compliance
Placing a tag on pallets and cases of products shipped to a customer that has issued an RFID-tagging mandate doesn't have to be extremely expensive. Our panel of experts provides tips on keeping costs low, and for offsetting the cost of compliance by achieving internal savings.
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Tips for keeping RFID tagging costs down |
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Best practices for using RFID mandate to cut internal costs |
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Aerospace:
Why the Airlines Industry is Looking at RFID
IATA, the leading aerospace association will share the results from a recent study that shows the business need for RFID in the airline industry. Learn about how the common airport structure can greatly benefit with in-flight, ULD, and baggage tracking.
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Andrew Price, RFID Project Manager, International Air
Transport Association (IATA)
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Best practices for implementing RFID in baggage systems |
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Understanding the business side of RFID in aerospace |
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Retail/CPG:
Visibility Is Not Enough—Turning Data Into Business Value
When linked to back-end systems, RFID technologies can deliver improved asset visibility, but visibility alone won't deliver many benefits. Companies need to work together to change business processes. Our panel of experts explores which processes can be RFID-enabled and how they can be changed.
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Best practices for implementing RFID supply chain processes |
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Understanding the EPCglobal Network, advance ship notices and other technologies needed to deliver supply chain benefits |
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Pharmaceutical:
Using RFID to Reduce Counterfeiting in the Real World
Pfizer Pharmaceutical, an early adopter of RFID, will share with attendees how well they have found RFID to perform as an anti-counterfeiting tool for Viagra and where they are heading with the technology based on the lessons learned from the project.
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Peggy Staver, Director of Trade Product Integrity, Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals US
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Understanding RFID's potential to reduce counterfeiting |
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Best practices for using RFID as an anti-counterfeiting tool |
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Manufacturing:
Logistics Provider Does the Tagging for Wal-Mart Supplier
At the start of this year, another 200 Wal-Mart suppliers were expected to start RFID-tagging pallets and cases of their products set for delivery to the retailer's RFID-enabled distribution centers in Texas. Atlas Cold Storage, a food industry warehousing and distribution services company, is providing the tagging as part of its service to two of those suppliers, creating a new revenue stream and saving its customer time and money.
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Paul Dennis, Vice President, Business Integration and Effectiveness,
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How to scale an RFID tagging system |
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How to reduce labor costs while meeting tagging mandates |
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Aerospace:
RFID Challenges and Opportunities
For RFID to deliver real value to companies in the aerospace sector, they will need to work together and with industry bodies to create information exchanges, and they will need to develop the internal architectural framework and systems that enable them to turn RFID data into actionable information. In this session, Boeing, a leader in adopting RFID, will discuss how it is addressing these challenges and the opportunity it sees once it does.
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An understanding of the specific types of RFID data aerospace companies need to share |
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Insight into the potential near- and long-term benefits of using RFID internally, and with supply-chain partners. |
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Retail/CPG:
Staples Business Depot (Canada) Measures Process Benefits of RFID
Staples Business Depot (Canada), the 260-store Canadian subsidiary of this global office-products leader, has completed
an end-to-end supply-chain pilot from a group of its vendors to a delivery center, as well as direct-to-store to test the process benefits of utilizing EPC-ready Gen 2 technology.
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Components and make-up of an end-to-end RFID pilot project |
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Analyzing the process benefits of utilizing RFID technology in your supply chain |
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Lessons learned and future opportunities for RFID applications |
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How to create a collaborative RFID pilot among supply chain partners |
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Pharmaceutical:
Adapting to Changing Frequencies
The pharmaceutical industry has been divided over whether to use HF or UHF tags to track individual bottles of pills and vials of injectable drugs. It's likely that companies will use different frequencies for different applications. Our panel of experts discusses how companies can make the best of both frequencies.
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Best practices for managing dual-frequency implementations |
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Insights into where and when to use each frequency |
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Manufacturing:
Using RFID for Regulatory Compliance
Since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington,
governments around the world have introduced tighter regulations of food and
other products. This puts a burden on companies to collect accurate
information about their products and their movements through the supply
chain. In this session, you will learn how Blommer Chocolate Company, the largest
manufacturer of chocolate in North America, deployed a warehouse-management and
RFID-tracking systems to comply with the U.S. Bioterrorism Act of 2002—while
simultaneously improving inventory accuracy and warehouse efficiencies.
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Best practices for using RFID to comply with government regulations |
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Insights into how RFID can improve warehouse operational efficiency |
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Aerospace:
Using Active RFID Tags on Parts in Flight
FedEx is working with Boeing on a 120-day pilot to use active RFID tags on major parts and subassemblies to improve manufacturing and maintenance. What are the issues associated with using active tags, and can they be overcome to create an entirely new way to build and efficiently maintain aircraft parts?
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The benefits of using active RFID tags on parts |
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Lessons learned from initial pilots of active tags on parts in flight |
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Retail/CPG:
Examining the Business Case
In this interactive session, attendees engage thought leaders in a discussion of the key issues surrounding the business case for implementing RFID in the retail/CPG industry. The issues discussed will include the cost of tags and readers, where cost savings can be found today and how to achieve benefits by sharing data with supply chain partners. The panel will also answer questions submitted by attendees and raised in online surveys conducted by RFID Journal.
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Pharmaceutical:
Examining the Business Case
In this interactive session, attendees engage thought leaders in a discussion of the key issues surrounding the business case for implementing RFID in the pharmaceutical industry. The issues discussed will include meeting mandates from retail partners, complying with legislation and achieving internal cost savings. The panel will also answer questions submitted by attendees and raised in online surveys conducted by RFID Journal.
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Garry Duvall, Deployment Manager, Tri-Management Activity,
Office of the Secretary of Defense
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David Richards, Director, Business Operations, ASD Healthcare
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Manufacturing:
Examining the Business Case
In this interactive session, attendees engage thought leaders in a discussion of the key issues surrounding the business case for implementing RFID in the manufacturing industry. The issues discussed will include using RFID in manufacturing operations, how to benefit from sharing RFID data with suppliers and customers, and overcoming problems associated with using RFID in challenging manufacturing environments. The panel will also answer questions submitted by attendees and raised in online surveys conducted by RFID Journal.
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Aerospace:
Examining the Business Case
In this interactive session, attendees engage thought leaders in a discussion of the key issues surrounding the business case for implementing RFID in the aerospace industry. The issues discussed will include meeting mandates by airplane manufacturers, where companies can achieve internal savings today, how to tag metal parts and how to benefit from collaborating with supply chain partners. The panel will also answer questions submitted by attendees and raised in online surveys conducted by RFID Journal.
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Cory Pirani, Configuration Control Specialist, FedEx
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Ken Jones, Director, Electronics Data Standards, ATA
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Day 2 program concludes |
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| September 28 |
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Breakfast |
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Technology vs. Law: Navigating the RFID Regulatory Process
Complying with privacy, security, and FCC regulations have become
issues of concern for RFID system users. Balancing legal
requirements with a successful business approach can prove to be a challenging task. How can companies stay on top of an effective compliance strategy in this ever-changing legal landscape while using the technology to its fullest potential.
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Doug Farry, Managing Director, Mckenna Long & Aldridge
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Getting Top Performance from RFID Tags
Learn about the process used to develop durable tags, which applications
require them, and how to select the appropriate materials to improve tag
performance. In this session, leading technologists discuss, compare and
contrast solutions geared for various industry needs.
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Refreshment break in Exhibit Hall |
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Retail/CPG:
Leveraging RFID in the Cold Chain
The RFID Research Lab at the University of Arkansas, one of the leading RFID research organizations, is studying the potential impact of RFID and RFID temperature loggers in the cold chain. The lab is conducting field trials. This session will explain what types of products exist today for using RFID in the cold chain, the impact environmental conditions have on RFID systems and how RFID can be used to improve cold chain monitoring.
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An understanding of how and where RFID can be used to improve cold-chain monitoring and deliver a return on investment |
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An understanding of the current state of RFID technology designed for use in the cold chain |
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Pharmaceutical:
Using RFID to Create Electronic Pedigrees for Drugs
RFID has the potential to help secure the pharmaceutical supply chain by making it fast and efficient to collect data about individual drugs from the time they are manufactured until the time they are consumed. This data can be used to populate electronic pedigree forms. Our panel looks at the technology and business practices needed to put such a system in place.
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Shabbir Dahod, President & CEO, SupplyScape Corporation
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James Dowden, Director, Distribution & Warehouse Services,
Hoffman-La Roche
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Insights into the technological issues behind e-pedigrees |
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Best practices for creating e-pedigrees |
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Manufacturing:
How To Integrate Your Tagging Operation
World Kitchen met is tagging requirements from Target in June 2005 and Wal-Mart in January 2006. It was among the first suppliers to integrate its tagging operation with its backend system. One of the leaders of that effort talks about what it takes to integrate RFID into SAP's enterprise resource planning applications, and how this approach will save the company money, enable it to scale the operation and eventually achieve internal efficiencies.
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Insights into the issues companies face as they integrate RFID with back-end systems |
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An understanding of the benefits of integration over "slap and ship" |
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The usefulness of RFID data in supply chain analysis |
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Aerospace:
Three Aerospace Applications for RFID
RFID has the ability to automate the manufacturing process. Learn how aerospace and defense manufacturers are leveraging RFID to track work orders, tools and assets in new and creative ways. This session explains three real-world applications: Using RFID and photocells to determine what part is being put away and where the item was placed; using a passive RFID forklift reader to determine what was picked up or put down and an active tag on the vehicle to determine where the items were picked up or dropped off; and using RFID to reduce inventory obsolescence and enforce first-in-first-out (FIFO) rules for sealants, adhesives and other items with a short shelf life.
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An understanding of how to use RFID for three
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Insights into the real-world obstacles that must be overcome to make RFID work in these applications. |
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| 12:30 pm |
Lunch in Exhibit Hall |
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Retail/CPG:
Supply Chain Collaboration—"Working With Partners"
(Round Table Forum)
Many of the key benefits of using RFID are achieved when companies share data and work together to change supply chain processes. In this interactive session, find out the status of data sharing standards in the retail/CPG industry, what infrastructure is needed to share accurate data securely and how to effectively begin and maintain resourceful data sharing operations with supply chain partners. Our panel of experts will also answer questions from attendees and address issues raised in an online survey of RFID Journal readers.
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Pharmaceutical:
Supply Chain Collaboration—"Working With Partners"
Many of the key benefits of using RFID are achieved when companies share data and work together to change supply chain processes. In this interactive session, find out what standards are being developed for the pharmaceutical industry, what infrastructure is needed to share accurate data securely and how to effectively begin and maintain resourceful data sharing operations with supply chain partners. Our panel of experts will also answer questions from attendees and address issues raised in an online survey of RFID Journal readers.
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Manufacturing:
Supply Chain Collaboration—"Working With Partners"
Many of the key benefits of using RFID are achieved when companies share data and work together to change supply chain processes. In this interactive session, find out what standards are being developed for the manufacturing industry, what infrastructure is needed to share accurate data securely and how to effectively begin and maintain resourceful data sharing operations with supply chain partners. Our panel of experts will also answer questions from attendees and address issues raised in an online survey of RFID Journal readers.
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Aerospace:
Supply Chain Collaboration—"Working With Partners"
Many of the key benefits of using RFID are achieved when companies share data and work together to change supply chain processes. In this interactive session, find out what standards are being developed for the aerospace industry, what infrastructure is needed to share accurate data securely and how to effectively begin and maintain resourceful data sharing operations with supply chain partners. Our panel of experts will also answer questions from attendees and address issues raised in an online survey of RFID Journal readers.
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Day 3 concludes—conference adjourns |
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RFID Journal Industry Summits is produced by RFID Journal, the World's RFID Authority.
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