CGT Inside News - 1/4/2006
Texas Instruments Ships EPC Gen 2 Tagged Calculators to Wal-Mart
January 4, 2006 - As a Wal-Mart next 200 supplier, the Educational & Productivity Solutions (E&PS) business of Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is now tagging 100 percent of its calculator products shipped to Wal-Mart with RFID tags based on the Gen 2 EPC specification. Starting with a dozen SKUs shipped to five distribution centers, TI E&PS is tagging cases and pallets of its graphing, scientific and financial calculators using Gen 2 smart label solutions from Texas Instruments RFid Systems, NCR Corporation and Zebra Technologies.
TI E&PS expects that its adoption of EPC Gen 2 solutions as a platform to facilitate advanced data exchange and processing capabilities on a global basis with its retail trading partners. "This marks a significant milestone for our business and the industry as a whole," says Keith Hodnett, vice president, Texas Instruments and supply chain manager for E&PS. "Moving forward, we are prepared to expand our Gen 2 efforts with other retail trading partners when they are ready."
TI E&PS first began its development and implementation of EPC Gen 2 in 2004, deciding to leapfrog legacy EPC Gen 1 solutions, which will be phased out in 2006. In building its Gen 2 implementation plan, TI worked closely with Wal-Mart. "TI is ahead of the curve with Gen 2 adoption, and we commend them on being the first to begin Gen 2 tagging of cases and pallets in support of Wal-Mart's RFID expansion plans in 2006," says Simon Langford, RFID strategy manager at Wal-Mart.
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January 4, 2006 - As a Wal-Mart next 200 supplier, the Educational & Productivity Solutions (E&PS) business of Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is now tagging 100 percent of its calculator products shipped to Wal-Mart with RFID tags based on the Gen 2 EPC specification. Starting with a dozen SKUs shipped to five distribution centers, TI E&PS is tagging cases and pallets of its graphing, scientific and financial calculators using Gen 2 smart label solutions from Texas Instruments RFid Systems, NCR Corporation and Zebra Technologies.
TI E&PS expects that its adoption of EPC Gen 2 solutions as a platform to facilitate advanced data exchange and processing capabilities on a global basis with its retail trading partners. "This marks a significant milestone for our business and the industry as a whole," says Keith Hodnett, vice president, Texas Instruments and supply chain manager for E&PS. "Moving forward, we are prepared to expand our Gen 2 efforts with other retail trading partners when they are ready."
TI E&PS first began its development and implementation of EPC Gen 2 in 2004, deciding to leapfrog legacy EPC Gen 1 solutions, which will be phased out in 2006. In building its Gen 2 implementation plan, TI worked closely with Wal-Mart. "TI is ahead of the curve with Gen 2 adoption, and we commend them on being the first to begin Gen 2 tagging of cases and pallets in support of Wal-Mart's RFID expansion plans in 2006," says Simon Langford, RFID strategy manager at Wal-Mart.
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