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Today everyone who writes about RFID analyzes the same question: “Where Is the return on investment with RFID?” The answer is quite simple. No technology by itself delivers any ROI without the hard, in-the-trenches work required to discover the specific-to-your-company applications that could be improved and then prioritized based on the amount of business pain they cause. This type of investigation should provide a detailed map that management can use to allocate resources based on the best ROI options.

In the 1980s and 1990s, many of the pallet rack manufacturers had large engineering departments to provide application engineering and project engineering for large systems they sold. The application engineers worked with the end users to determine which products best suited their needs and provided the pricing for large systems. Project engineers created the manufacturing bills of materials and the drawings needed for construction permits and installation of the equipment.

The art and science of implementing software packages to manage projects is maturing. As a result, in addition to

The PC-based point-of-sale (POS) market in North America experienced a solid 5% increase in shipments in 2005, according to a new study from Franklin, TN-based IHL Consulting Group.