LIVE! 2023 Spotlight: Supply Chain and Logistics Track

By RFID Journal

Here's why you won't want to miss the Supply Chain and Logistics track at this year's RFID Journal LIVE! conference and exhibition.

RFID Journal LIVE! 2023 will feature end-user companies discussing RFID's use in various industries, as well as exhibitors offering tagging solutions for multiple applications. To learn more, visit the event's website.

RFID Journal LIVE! 2023 is less than seven weeks away, and this year's event will feature one of the strongest speaker lineups in years (see Registration Now Open for LIVE! 2023). Radio frequency identification (RFID) and Internet of Things (IoT) sensor technologies are improving operational efficiencies in logistics. Those attending this track's sessions will learn how companies are improving pick accuracy and auditing all outbound shipments to ensure the right items are delivered, as well as how businesses are using these technologies to manage reusable containers, monitor the condition of perishables and achieve substantial cost savings. Here's what you can discover by attending the Supply Chain and Logistics track. (Click here to view the full conference track.)

Marine Corps Swaps Manual System for RFID to Improve Inventory Management
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The U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Command is utilizing RFID technology to monitor a large inventory of diverse equipment. Learn how the organization has improved its inventory management and accountability, while preparing for an imminent Department of Defense-mandated audit.
Speakers: Lt. Col. Jesse Johnson, U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Command; Scott Prouse, Action Officer, U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Command

Waste Collection 4.0: Using RFID and IoT to Improve Sustainability Performance
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Halden Kommune, a municipality in Viken county, Norway, is using UHF RFID, GPS, Bluetooth and machine learning-based image recognition to optimize and analyze waste collection. The technology improves sustainability and economy in the company's waste-collection efforts. Find out how user recycling performance is monitored and influenced via state-of-the-art Internet of Things technology on waste bins and waste-collection trucks.
Speaker: Kåre Edvardsen, Head of Department, Halden Kommune

Brazilian Postal Operator Uses RFID to Improve Visibility
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Correios, the Brazilian postal operator, has implanted RFID tags in its cargo, as well as in containers, which hold hundreds of packages, and has installed around 2,000 readers at the entrances and exits of operational units to better track letters and parcels in its network. This was done in partnership with the Universal Postal Union, a United Nations specialized agency, through its Global Monitoring System program and GS1 Brasil. RFID tags include the standard GS1 Serial Shipping Container Code as a postal item identifier. Learn how Correios has deployed the tracking project using ultra-high frequency (UHF) RFID technology.
Speaker: Odarci Maia Jr., Sr. Postal Analyst, Correios

Smartphones as Secure RFID Tools in Free-Flow Tolling Operations
Dario Thober, the president of the Wernher von Braun Institute and a leading specialist in electronic tolls, will share new advances in toll-collection technology. Gain an understanding of how secure payment operations at any speed can address commercial tolling operations utilizing smartphones and other platforms operating as RFID-based devices. And learn how a smartphone can make toll payments and facilitate parking, fueling and even snack bar purchases.
Speaker: Dario Thober, President, Wernher von Braun Advanced Research Center

Improving Warehouse Processes with RFID
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Enea Operator is one of the largest distribution system operators in Poland, providing energy to more than 2.5 million customers. Learn how the firm improved its warehouse processes by building a self-service counter warehouse based on RFID technology, thus boosting security, availability, convenience and reliability at its facility, using stationary and mobile readers for the identification of products.
Speakers: Krzysztof Frontczak, Measuring System Coordinator, Enea Operator; Lukasz Kasperski, Measuring System Coordinator, Enea Operator