White Papers

Source To Store Solutions Overview
This overview highlights the results of research conducted in 2011 by the University of Arkansas Information Technology Research Institute and illustrates how EPC-enabled RFID can help products and information flow through touch points from source to shelf. 

Visibility Data Enables the Apparel Supply Chain
This white paper introduces the GS1 US Visibility Framework and explains how it can be applied to provide increased visibility into business processes within a variety of industries.

Item-Level RFID: A Competitive Differentiator Visibility Data Enables the Apparel Supply Chain
A study from the VICS Item-Level RFID Initiative (VILRI), a group of advocates for the use of EPC-enabled RFID in the retail supply chain, suggests that adoption of RFID is reaching a "tipping point", with 80 percent of surveyed retailers having initiated pilots using RFID to track item sales in their stores. The report, which includes input from Accenture and a survey of 58 suppliers and 56 retailers in North America, confirmed that item-level adoption of RFID is gaining traction.