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Posts Tagged ‘Data Carriers’

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 »

About The Author
Dirk Rodgers

Dirk is currently a Sr. Consultant in IT working within the U.S. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. He is currently co-chair of several technical work groups in GS1 and GS1 US. He was a co-chair of the original GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging work group that created the DPMS pedigree standard. Dirk holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.