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RFID Required: LEGO's Integrated RFID System
March 13, 2006
•Case Study: LEGO Systems, Inc.
You've probably heard the stories of frustration with RFID: high overheads and little returns, constant implementation challenges, and business benefits that will be realized someday. So I'm sure you'll be as floored as I was when you hear LEGO Systems, Inc.'s story. Pat McGrath, project manager, distribution, Americas; and Gary Deets, applications manager, global IT, are so positive about RFID that you'd think they're speaking pure conjecture, or at the very least, a bunch of marketing fluff. But, they aren't. McGrath and Deets are speaking from real experience, from implementing an RFID solution into a LEGO DC (distribution center) to comply with both Wal-Mart's and Target's mandates – compliance they gained three months ahead of schedule.
LEGO is a global toy company headquartered in Billund, Denmark with manufacturing and distribution sites in Europe and the United States. LEGO bricks (the building block pieces) are manufactured in Europe, with 75% of the products packaged in the United States. A 450,000-square-foot DC in Connecticut, which ships 10 million cases a year, handles the distribution of products to LEGO's U.S. trading partners (and 40% of that volume takes place in the three months before the December holidays).
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