Spanish retail achieves fresh fruit RFID traceability

Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona has installed RFID tags within the dry, fresh and frozen goods areas of its new logistics centre near Madrid. These tags, developed by German firm Witron Logistik & Informatik, will be used to identify system pallets and help the retailer achieve complete traceability at a vital section of the supply chain.

Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona has installed RFID tags within the dry, fresh and frozen goods areas of its new logistics centre near Madrid. These tags, developed by German firm Witron Logistik & Informatik, will be used to identify system pallets and help the retailer achieve complete traceability at a vital section of the supply chain. In the long term this should bring cost benefits due to less wastage and quicker identification of bottlenecks or weaknesses. The new logistics centre, which has been designed to handle 265,000 cubit feed of goods per day within the dry goods section and 198,000 cubit feet per day in the fresh and frozen goods areas, will use Witron#s OPM (Order Picking Machinery) for the fully automated picking of single units (cases) to ensure optimum supply to the supermarket#s retail stores.