Intelligent Global Pooling Systems is a pallet rental company that supplies plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags. The claim is that “embedded RFID tags enable shippers and receivers to track shipments throughout the supply chain.”
Although the pallets are hired and you can expect them to come and go between warehouses, manufacturing centres and shipping points in open and closed loop environments, it is still possible to track pallet assets and stock using Juniper Innovations’ RFID and warehouse management system. Using a combination of RFID readers on dock doors and existing barcode readers for example, it is possible to track pallets and stock into and out of buildings. The warehouse management software is able to both track RFID tags on pallets plus link RFID tags to barcodes.