The Future of the Supply Chain Is (Almost) Here

“If you put those three forces together, and we have an industry that knows it’s under pressure and needs to be more efficient in its supply chain, I think those factors probably make three to five years a lot more realistic than it was three to five years ago,” he says.

“The potential of RFID is total transparency in real time,” Lichtenberg says. “You can imagine how different the book industry would look if you could know where every book is at all times, in real time. It’s a transformative technology, like the Internet was a transformative technology.”