RFID and Pervasive Technologies

Retail Mandate Compliance

Adoption trends
  • Suppliers complying with retailer mandates are not seeing significant benefits to their own operations, since these mandates reflect retailers' attempt to gain competitive advantage relative to their competition
  • Infosys recommends that suppliers assess the long-term potential of RFID in their operations and ensure that their compliance investments can be leveraged in the future for gaining competitive advantage
  • Infosys' Solution Integration Platform that enables device, application and data integration, combined with our global systems integration capabilities enables rapid deployment across geographies

Our experience
A Real Time RFID Analytics and Reporting Application to
  • Demonstrate how manufacturers, 3PLs, and Retailers can collaborate to move beyond Slap and Ship Compliance
  • Derive value from RFID by compiling a visible to-all audit trail of "what", "when", and "where" enabled by RFID

Infosys partnered with a US division of an Electronics Conglomerate which distributes high-end electronics to big retailers and major corporate accounts. The client was requested to consider case and pallet-level RFID tagging by the Retailer. In this context, Infosys assisted the client in:
  • Developing its RFID mandate response strategy
  • Perform technical architecture design & validation
  • Assess Global Data Synchronization requirements
  • Develop a strategy for leveraging RFID across its supply chain and extended corporate entities