2019-10-03 Meeting notes

Date

Oct 7, 2019

Agenda

• Presentation by Allan Gulley
  
  

  • Senior Manager at the Auburn University RFID Lab (since May 2017)

  • Led several industry projects in the Retail and Apparel space.

  • Lead on the CHIP Project - proof-of-concept using Blockchain for serialized data exchange between retail supply chain stakeholders.

  • Present a retail PoC project called CHIP (Chain Integration Pilot) that he has been working on.

Meeting notes

RFID Location

• 2 hours west of Atlanta

• They do not develop technology

• Focused on the business case - discovering solutions

Retail / Apparel Data Flow Today

• Typically the data is generated by individual participants, not efficient to share

• EDI not designed to handle the volume and data to handle the granularity

PoC

• Compile and analyze the data between participants

• Every single stakeholder had a different way to communicate data

• Have the brands chose to identify

• Retailers decided to remain anonymous

• Pilot will begin early 2020 - solution providers will be needed

Challenges

• Prevent cloning of tags

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  • Difficult to prevent for QR Code but easier to manage with RFID