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on March 25, 2011
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A UPM ShortDipole tage is embedded in the plastic pallets that are loaded with goods destined for either of the two RFID enabled Coop distribution centers. Handheld readers read and encode the tags and then transmit the shipping details to the company. The data is then stored and made available for web access.
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on March 11, 2011
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This high rate of hiring along with an expected 50 percent reduction in layoffs projects the highest rate of net job growth in SCM professionals since the advent of the recent global recession.
"2010 saw incremental growth in the expected hiring among operations and SCM professions," said APICS CEO, Abe Eshkenazi. "This huge increase in SCM hiring and the decrease in layoffs in Q4 of 2010 are clear in the US Labor Department jobs report, and this is a huge cause of optimism for SCM professionals."
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Robert Scoble
A financial crimes detective points out that it is already difficult for them to trace back to points where credit cards are being compromised, and the RFID technology will make it that much more complicated for them. They haven't seen many issues with it yet, but when a security expert took to the streets with an off-the-shelf card reader he bought online and a computer, he was able to obtain information from RFID cards through people's pockets, including bank names, account numbers and expiration dates.
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