Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) continues to be a hot topic today due to the announcement made by Wal-Mart and Best Buy to require their top 100 suppliers to provide RFID tags on pallets and cases and extend this requirement to additional Suppliers. This decision brought RFID into the limelight and has generated considerable attention on RFID in the retail supply chain.

This whitepaper will examine briefly the history of RFID technology, review the various types of tag and reader technologies and their uses, discuss the potential benefits as well as the challenges for its adoption, and then provide recommendations on implementation strategies that make sense today.