The Future of the Supply Chain Is (Almost) Here

“Other industries have better margins, so they have the money to fund it,” he says, “and they’re more technology-friendly. Hewlett-Packard put chips on their computers in their warehouses, so they know where everything is within their four walls.”

Lichtenberg believes the expansion of use in other industries, a continued drop in the price of tags and lessening concerns about privacy will drive widespread implementation by the book industry in the next three to five years.