October 18, 2005
Wal-Mart to share EPC data
Two of the largest retailers in the US, Target and Wal-Mart, will be sharing their EPC data with 13 manufacturers under a pilot program. The applicability statement 2 (AS2), which is an Internet-based electronic data interchange, is being used to transmit the data in a standardized format.
The pilot should help in understanding the possible ways in which the manufacturers can benefit from the tagging that they do for the retailers. The EPC data includes information on the product status, stage of the business process, etc. Awareness of this information will help the manufacturers to plan better and be prepared, thereby improving the level of their service to the retailers.
"This data-exchange pilot is a huge tipping point," says Raymond Blanchard, a member of EPCglobal's Data-Exchange Working Group and cofounder of TrueDemand Software. TrueDemand has developed applications that can take advantage of EPC data and enable several of the business cases created by the EPCglobal Business Action Group.
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