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Social Security Administration Finally Moving Forward With RFID

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 in News

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is finally shifting out of its manual shipping-and-receiving process to a system based on barcodes (and soon) RFID technology, RFID Journal reports.

By going electronic, the agency was able to cut labor and operational expenses to the tune of $1 million.

It’s new RFID tagging system is intended to further streamline the administration’s shipping and receiving processes and improve outbound shipment accuracy by up 5 percent while its receiving accuracy may improve by 25 to 30 percent once all its suppliers begin tagging shipments, according to reports. [end] 


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