June 28, 2004

HD Smith Becomes First Drug Wholesaler in U.S. to Adopt RFID

Matrics, and RFID tag and reader supply company, is supplying the one-inch square tags to place on the pharmaceutical bottles and packages shipped by HD Smith.

According to inpharma.com:

"Robert Kashmer, vice president of Information Technology at HD Smith, said: 'We see benefits in two key areas, namely, product handling/logistics and product/supply chain integrity.' He noted that the system will allow goods to be tracked at the bottle serial number level." Read more

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