Gen 2 Affords Supply Chain Visibility to Kimberly-Clark

RFID pioneer Kimberly-Clark Corporation selects the Alien ALR-9800 Enterprise RFID Reader as part of its logistics program to comply with retail industry mandates requiring the use of RFID technology in the supply chain. Kimberly-Clark chose the multi-protocol Alien ALR-9800 after conducting an extensive evaluation of EPC Class 1 Gen 2 RFID readers at the company's EPCglobal-accredited RFID research lab.

"As we continue to move toward fully implementing RFID technology throughout our supply chain operations, it is mission-critical that we have the right RFID hardware equipment in place to meet our needs," says Mike O'Shea, director, Auto-ID Sensing Technologies of Kimberly-Clark. "We chose the Alien ALR-9800 for its exceptional read performance and scalability, easy-to-manage data collection, and its potential for low total cost-of-ownership."

The consumer packaged goods leader will deploy Alien ALR-9800 readers initially in key manufacturing and transport locations across North America. The ALR-9800's will be located on conveyors and stretch-wrappers to automatically capture data from RFID-tagged packaged products, cartons and pallets, thus providing up-to-the-second information on the movement of products throughout the supply chain that can be leveraged by the company and its retail customers.