When should you rely on bar coding to store information? When should you use radio frequency identification (RFID)? And what’s the difference?
Bar coding is a cost-effective and low-risk method of encoding information that helped start sophisticated supply-chain management. Radio frequency identification (RFID), on the other hand, enables users to collect and encode information for many items simultaneously by way of radio frequency as opposed to the optical systems used to read bar codes.
Both bar codes and RFID have a place in supply chain management/tracking. But when is one method more practical than the other? This article will examine the history, similarities and differences between bar codes and RFID.