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EPC/RFID arrives! New Zealand's first major roll-out. |
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New Zealand’s first major commercial roll-out of radio frequency identification (RFID) on the Electronic Product Code (EPC) standard is well underway within the kiwifruit industry.
GS1 New Zealand, through its Supply Chain Enhancement Programme, has designed and, given close ongoing support to the implementation of a system that will enable EastPack to track and trace every pallet of kiwifruit throughout its extensive Bay of Plenty operations.
This is likely to be the first whole-of-operation application of EPC/RFID technology in the Asia-Pacific region. It is certainly an application designed and implemented specifically to meet the demands of a large-scale operation in the heart of New Zealand’s export sector.
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