PURDUE PHARMA
SAP® RFID Drives Value for Today and Tomorrow
In 2003, retail giant Wal-Mart announced that its suppliers would soon need to ship their products with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, which enable the automatic tracking of goods. Like many suppliers, Purdue Pharma L.P. began investigating ways to comply with that mandate. But unlike many, the Stamford, Conn.–based pharmaceutical company decided to do more than simply address the immediate challenge, and instead took a more strategic view of RFID.
“We wanted to go beyond the ‘slap-and-ship’ mentality of just sticking ID tags on bottles and sending them along in order to comply with the mandate,” says Chuck Nardi, information officer, commercial systems, Purdue Pharma L.P. “As a supplier of scheduled analgesics, we’re very focused on security. We saw this as an opportunity to take a broader look at RFID and the value we could get out of it over the long run.”
After exploring several options, Purdue Pharma decided to implement SAP® RFID technology, which gives companies a complete, robust RFID infrastructure. Nardi says that the decision was based on SAP’s comprehensive, integrated approach to software and deep commitment to RFID. “This is still a leading-edge technology, so everyone is new at it,” he says. “But as the whole RFID space shakes out in the next couple of years, we know SAP is going to be there.”
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