In an effort to be more environmentally responsible, PepsiCo recently announced that its Quaker, Gatorade, and Tropicana business units will begin shipping all products on Intelligent Global Pooling Systems’ new all-plastic pallets. The pallets are 30% lighter than wood pallets, and shipping is expected to begin once inventory on all wood pallets is taken-which the company expects to be by next month. All iGPS pallets are equipped with EPC Gen 2 RFID tags.
As iGPS pallets are rented by customers-such as PepsiCo-iGPS will use the tags to track the pallets. Additionally, iGPS’ customers can use the tags for the same purpose, tracking and tracing their own shipments. All three of PepsiCo’s business units’ facilities will feature either handheld RFID readers or door-mounted fixed readers in order to read tags as pallets enter or exit the warehouse/DC. That data is then shared with an iGPS server on-site, which sends the information via Internet to a back-end server at an iGPS-operated data center.
Other benefits of the plastic pallets include their being 100% recyclable, flame-retardant, and fully edge-rackable.
PepsiCo is not the first company to utilize RFID as part of efforts to be good environmental stewards. Last year, green energy startup company Coulomb Technologies announced that RFID would play a critical role in the operation of the electric car charging stations deployed in the San Francisco Bay area.
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