Mandates aside, real-world concerns may slow uptake of the revolutionary supply-chain technology report released last week by Forrester Research predicts that less than a quarter of Wal-Mart's top 100 suppliers will meet the retailer's Jan. 1 deadline. "It's not possible for these suppliers to meet Wal-Mart's 100% readability-rate deadline in the next 276 days," says Forrester Research analyst Christine Spivey Overby. Smaller suppliers, which have an extra year, are likely even further behind." In the near term, RFID is likely to create more hype than help. FedEx's Aaholm expects as much for the next couple of years. But, she said, 10 years from now, we'll look back and be amazed at the impact the technology has had.
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