The global mission of EAN International and UCC (EAN-UCC) is:
“Improving supply chain management and other business processes to reduce the costs of manufacturing goods and providing services, developing EAN International and UCC, establishing and promoting global, open identification and communication standards”.
One of the latest technologies for automatic identification of products, services, processes, etc., is identification using radio waves, known as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), which provides new opportunities in the field of automatic data collection applications, known as ADC (Automatic Data Capture), in supply chain management. The goal of RFID is to transfer data using transponders, called tags (an electronic chip of small dimensions, even 1 mm x 1 mm, containing, among other things, programmable memory, control and logic circuits, and possessing an antenna allowing for the reception of a signal from a reader and the emission of information to the reader) and reading them at the time and place required in a given application. The data in the tag should contain an identifier for the item, logistics unit, loading pallet, vehicle, animal, etc.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2001/2.