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TNT Logistics N.A. Initiates An Intermec RFID Pilot With Error-Free Load Validation
November 21, 2007
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Terry McIntyre bristles at the idea of mandates. In his job as manager of technology services for TNT Logistics N.A., he routinely comes up against such commands. Many of his company's clients are suppliers to the major retailers that have the muscle to dictate how pallets of goods arrive at their loading docks. And those retailers want nearly everything to come tagged with radio frequency identification, or RFID.
"Most of the initiatives that are going on right now with RFID are driven by mandates," he said. "Major retailers are mandating that if their suppliers don't do something by a certain date, they will be penalized. We're not playing in that mandate space, where they call it ‘slap and ship.' We saw the value in RFID and wanted to do it to enhance our value to our customers, not have our customers force us to do something that we didn't want to do."
The value in such a self-prompted approach is that TNT Logistics N.A. can avoid the sort of anxious implementation that sometimes accompanies change directed by outside entities. TNT Logistics N.A. found it could take its time with research and development, participating in one of six worldwide pilot programs funded by its parent company, Amsterdam-based TNT Corporate.
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