Today’s supply chain is complex and increasingly distributed, creating challenges around lost, late, damaged, counterfeited and stolen goods in the supply chain. Many companies are looking to improved visibility of product movement through RFID to address these issues.

The Allumis application effectively utilizes receiving and shipping events data generated from RFID to keep track of the location of products and automatically alert all affected supply-chain partners if an exception has occurred in the shipping process. By integrating with EPC Information Systems, the EPC Discovery Service, and the Object Naming Service, the Allumis system provides compliance with current standards and greater efficiencies in shipping and receiving. Allumis’s application provides labor savings through shipping and receiving efficiencies and increased service levels to customers all through a low-cost, hosted solution

The panel of four contest judges was made up of Lori Bigler, manager, Business Technology Standards, The J.M. Smucker Company; Byron Deeter, principal, Bessemer Venture Partners; Ann Grackin, chief executive office, ChainLink Research; and Bernie Hogan, chief technology officer, Uniform Code Council.

The Electronic Product Code (EPC) and radio frequency identification (RFID) are being deployed for the automation of product identification within the supply chain. Just as email and the browser were key drivers for Internet usage, new applications will drive innovative uses of these technologies to enable the next-generation supply chain. VeriSign created the EPC Application Developers Contest to highlight the best emerging ideas that use EPC data to solve real-world business challenges.

About Allumis

Based in Toronto, Canada, Allumis Inc. provides logistics, tracking applications and information solutions to the freight brokerage industry to help improve supply chain processes. For further information, please visit www.allumis.com.