RFID technology in food supply chain

Written by Paolo Martinelli on Friday September 30th, 2016. Posted in Cultura Generale, Tracciabilità Alimentare

The RFID technology  into apparel supply chains is now an important part. Many big names of this sector have implemented the technology to increase efficiency, fight counterfeiting and tracking goods.

The same purposes could be searched into the food supply chains.

Nowadays more than yesterday food markets look very similars to apparel markets. It’s possible to find differents prices for same products, from populars to high level. We have brands in trouble with counterfeiting and grey markets, like famous fashion’s firms. Some food distributors manage a lot of items and for them an inventory means time, stop the lines, resources and onbviously money. These problems are the same fought with RFID by some apparel’s brand.

In food markets, like in fashion, there are societies

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RFID technology into agro-food’s supply chain

Written by Paolo Martinelli on Friday May 27th, 2016. Posted in Cultura Generale, Tracciabilità Alimentare

RFID technology is an useful tool for who want to innovate business, increasing products tracking into extended supply chains and protecting own brand from counterfeiting and grey markets. An important characteristic of radio frequencies technology is its applicability in many different supply chains.

In this article I would like to share what RFID can do into an agro-food supply chain. In questo articolo daremo un’idea di quello che la tecnologia a radio frequenze può fare all’interno della filiera agroalimentare.

For first step I will explain the differences between two differents kind of agro-food supply chain:

• the short one
• the long one

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