RFID Journal – The Cost of Wal-Mart’s RFID Edict

“According to AMR, a typical CPG manufacturer shipping 50 million cases per year will have to spend between $13 million and $23 million to deploy RFID and satisfy Wal-Mart’s tagging requirement. Tags and readers alone will cost $5 million to $10 million, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg, according to the Boston-based research company. An additional $8 million to $13 million will also have to be spent on system integration, changes to existing supply chain applications and upgrades to storage systems and analytics software to make use of the large volumes of data that RFID will bring. “