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Archive for April, 2010

RFID is DEAD…at Unit-Level in Pharma

That’s right.  And it comes from an economic reality that was evident even six years ago.  That was when a small group of people with various pharmaceutical supply chain backgrounds had an informal discussion of the relative costs and impacts that each of the three primary business segments in the supply chain would face in a full deployment of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID).  As I recall, this conversation may not have even been part of the official proceedings of the project we were assembled to work on at the time.  It may have actually occurred during one of the social hours after a day of meetings, but it stuck with me.  Ever since that time I kept meaning to get around to creating the graphs that we envisioned at that time but have never gotten around to it, until now. Read the rest of this entry »

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About Dirk Rodgers
Dirk Rodgers currently works within the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain as a Sr. Consultant in IT. Previously he worked as Director of Industry Standards for SupplyScape Corporation, a supplier of supply chain collaboration software and services (now known as TraceLink). Dirk is the co-chair of the GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging work group and is a member of many other GS1 and GS1 U.S work groups. Dirk has worked on solving problems with warehouse and supply chain automation IT systems during a career of over 25 years and has focused specifically on the pharmaceutical supply chain for over 16 of those years. Dirk holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.