CRM Buyer

Best Buy Pursues Electronic Product Code Supply Chain

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 ...
RFID Journal

What is the Electronic Product Code?

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 ...
RFID Journal

Will my company have to replace our entire bar code infrastructure to take advantage of the Electronic Product Code?

EPCglobal is promoting the Electronic Product Code as the next standard for identifying products. It is trying to create a migration path for companies to move from established standards for bar codes ...
Electronic Design

EPCglobal's Gen 2

Developed by the EPCglobal industry group, the Electronic Product Code (EPC) Gen 2 standard defines the physical and logical requirements for a passive-backscatter, interrogator-talks-first (ITF), ...
Computerworld

EPCglobal sets up RFID product code management system

The RFID food chain has started to turn its attention from tags and readers to data management, as industry groups, vendors and users focus on systems and processes designed to derive value from ...
Computerworld

EPCglobal taps VeriSign to operate RFID product code directory

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 ...