Juiced-up RFID

Here’s an article published this morning from the RFID Journal which explains how juice and fruit supplier, Ocean Spray, is using RFID technology as an analytics tool to track out-of stocks.

The company intends to immediately identify exceptions so it can correct product flow, determine the cause and take quick corrective action. In the case of a product located in a store's back room but not on the shelf, an agent might be deployed to alert store personnel about the shelf out-of-stock.

Also included in the system is a ‘root cause analysis’ which not only indicates when an item is out-of-stock, but also if the items departed or arrived in a timely fashion.