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HP Hood LLC

Major Dairy Embraces RFID—Enables Business With The World’s Largest Retailer

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Overview

Many major retailers are requiring suppliers to adopt specific RFID tagging practices—dairy giant HP Hood LLC turned to VeriSign® RFID Consulting to swiftly establish a foundation for advanced tracking capabilities, and realize other operational efficiencies from RFID technology.

Key Challenges

• Comply with a large retailer’s mandate for RFID tagging
• Identify a source of RFID expertise with first-hand implementation experience
• Avoid unnecessary over-delivery against the large retailer’s tagging requirements
• Create a pilot with ability to scale to the magnitude of RFID tagging demanded by large retailers
• Minimize anticipated impact of RFID implementation on daily processing operations
• Reduce goods acceptance delays and inaccurate freight claims

Solution

• VeriSign RFID Consulting

Results

• Tagging performance is fully in compliance with the retailer’s requirements.
• The volume of tagged items is optimized to balance costs while still remaining compliant.
• VeriSign consultants delivered an RFID strategy that had minimal impact on daily operations.
• The pilot was capable of scaling to meet needs well into 2007 without requiring any additional expenditure in hardware or software.
• The proposed solution promised to reduce freight claims and damages incurred through freight delivery count discrepancies.

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