Communication Role of Logistical Packaging - RFID Tracking and Packages

An 2005 news article extracted from Information Week , the article was stating that DHL Plans RFID Tags For Every Package It Ships. The goal that DHL had in mind was to gain tighter control of shipments, cut costs, and improve operating performance by reducing paperwork and data collection. One of the reason behind the plan to tag every package it handles is because the transportation and logistics arm of Deutsche Post World Net ships more than a billion packages a year.

Since 1998 onwards, DHL had been testing RFID in 1998 and has since conducted 20 trials with passive and active technology. UPS Inc., by comparison, says it has conducted three big tests, such as using RFID to replace bar codes on packages.

Taken this article as a learning case study, this shows that RFID tracking system is currently an crucial and neccessary idea inputed in the logistical industry. And it will also be a quick emerging trends for most of the logistical packages, especially for products that needed well-protected packages and yet reliable tracking and tracing services to survive in the business for long-term. One of the examples will be the pallet pooling business where tracking is needed very much in the company for collecting back of their pallets.

Reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d_LkbJeWao

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164302179