Stationery Company Cracks RFID Coding

Paris Corp., a paper converter, has developed a comprehensive RFID program to meet Walmart’s RFID tagging mandates. This program includes custom-designed inlay encoding, label printing and application equipment, and custom encoding software.

RFID technology is particularly useful for inventory management in retail environments. For Walmart, it helps track products within stores, reducing stockouts and improving efficiency.

Walmart’s history with RFID mandates dates back to 2003, when it became the first retailer to require its suppliers to apply RFID tags to cases and pallets of incoming products, or to individual high-value items. By 2006, its top 500 suppliers were expected to have implemented the technology.

At that time, RFID was highly anticipated in industry circles. However, by 2007, almost every supplier had missed the deadline, and the program fizzled out due to early-stage technology challenges and high implementation costs.