The implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in industrial
manufacturing and retail supply chain management has seen strong growth in recent years. This
is partly due to Wal-Marts RFID mandate to its suppliers. As more companies along the global
supply chain adopt RFID RFID tags embedded can be expected to proliferate in virtually every
industrial product ranging from computers to automobiles in the near future. Large retailers
likeWal-Mart and government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have driven
recent developments in RFID technology. This in turn has a diffusion effect on hundreds of
suppliers and manufacturers as their products are required to be tagged before shipping to
these giant customers. RFID technology provides a good alternative to automatically reading and
writing product information. In addition to recording the identity of an object RFID
technology also documents its current status recent past and immediate future.
