Best Buy has announced the rollout of an electronic product code (EPC) strategy designed to increase its supply chain efficiency over the next several years. The company yesterday said it plans to ...

WASHINGTON -- The Universal Product Code, the ubiquitous bar code that recently passed the 30th anniversary of its initial live scan in a supermarket, has saved the food retailing industry billions of ...

The Electronic Product Code (EPC) was created by the Auto-ID Center as an eventual successor to the bar code. The aim was to create a low-cost method of tracking goods using RFID technology. The ...

On June 11, 2003 Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman announced the retailing giant?s EPC (Electronic Product Code) initiative to a packed room. Wal-Mart?s top 100 suppliers have until the end of 2006 to label ...

Some ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) EPC tags have a tag ID and some do not. The tag ID is a serial number created at the time that the microchip is produced at a manufacturing facility. It is the serial ...

The EPC (Electronic Product Code) Network will soon allow manufacturers and distributors to accurately track and maintain information on countless individual items via RFID (Radio Frequency ...

When UHF RFID tags and communication protocols were designed, the concept of the EPC Network was developed to ensure global interoperability as products moved from manufacturer to distributor to ...

selected VeriSign Inc. to maintain the key electronic product codes (EPC) that could eventually identify billions of unique products, ranging from tubes of toothpaste on grocery store shelves to ...

Up until this week, you could try out EPC technology in your warehouse or store, but you had to be a member of the club -- that is, a sponsor of the technology's creator, the Auto-ID Center, based at ...

A group of academics and business executives is planning to introduce next month a next-generation bar code system, which could someday replace with a microchip the series of black vertical lines ...

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