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RFID growth at T&A

Tanimura & Antle vice president of information technology Tom Casas debriefs us with an update to the produce packer’s RFID program that was highlighted in an online article published in April 2005, T&A takes RFID into the field (see packworld.com/go/c152).

In summary, family-owned grower-shipper Tanimura & Antle, Salinas, CA, was just two months into its RFID program for reusable plastic containers (RPCs), back in the spring at the time of that first article. Each RPC contains 24 heads of lettuce that are shipped to Wal-Mart. Now, six months later, Casas provides highlights on how T&A’s RFID program rollout is going as of October 2005:

T&A is now involved with two more pilots beyond Wal-Mart.

These include Albertsons, for which T&A is shipping RFID-tagged bins of lettuce. Casas says they are currently sending two items, lettuce and cauliflower, to one Wal-Mart distribution center, but may add more items by the end of 2005. T&A’s second RFID-tagged product, cauliflower, is now distributed to both Wal-Mart and Publix. The company has begun a test program for Publix at the University of Florida to test the EPCglobal Network.

T&A’s “homegrown” middleware software is still doing the job for them. “I’m not as sure about moving away from our custom middleware solution to a commercially available version,” says Casas. “Our software is working very well and we are integrating it with information from our Warehouse Management System software via a Web portal. Results are promising at this point.”

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