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Information Technology News IBM, Metro deliver customer-facing RFID | IBM, Metro deliver customer-facing RFID |
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| Written by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 11 January 2008 | |
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RFID readers are also used by store employees to locate goods that customers are looking for. The system also provides real-time inventory and other performance reports. to employees and managers. Metro and IBM have also recently implemented Europe's largest supply chain RFID project, allowing the retailer to track shipments from its suppliers to its warehouses and distribution centres and then on to some 200 outlets around Germany, including Metro Cash & Carry and Real stores. Metro is one of Europe's pioneering users of RFID in the retail industry, with a pilot in 20 stores during 2004. The Galeria Kaufhof project is one of the first to use the EPCglobal architecture framework.
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