4.7 Summary of main findings and conclusions
One of the objectives of this paper was to update the reader with respect to the state of
RFID implementation in warehousing industry as compared to the 2004 study
(Vijayaraman and Osyk, 2006). A comparison of the results from the two studies yields
some interesting results. One of the main findings from the present study was that only
43 percent of the companies surveyed are either considering or piloting/implementing
RFID technology (as compared to 56 percent of the companies in the 2004 study).
Out of this 43 percent, only 42 percent of the companies are considering RFID
technology (75 percent in 2004), whereas 31 percent of the companies are pilot testing
RFID (17 percent in 2004) and 27 percent of the companies are implementing or have