RFID to provide real-time tracking

How third-party logistics provider Megatrux utilizes RFID for inventory and warehouse management, shipping, and receiving automation, improving customer service, and shipment accuracy. New case study from SATO.

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Jul 10th, 2008

As more retailers and their suppliers turn to radio frequency identification (RFID) to help improve supply chain efficiency, an opportunity has arisen for third-party logistics providers to assist these companies with their RFID deployments. Megatrux, Inc., a California-based Top 100 3PL provider of freight management services for air, land, and sea shipments, is using RFID to provide real-time tracking for its customers and to improve its own internal import, warehousing, and distribution service offerings. 

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