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The growth in global connectivity encourages all kinds of industries to rethink the way they work with business partners and suppliers.

Electronic networks enable companies to find lower cost, higher quality service providers in the wider global marketplace, creating virtual trading communities that help cut costs, reduce time to market and improve choice for customers. At the same time, companies are making increasing use of ‘track and trace’ technologies, such as RFID, to improve collaboration and efficiency across their physical supply chain networks.

BT can help you extend your organisation by improving both physical and electronic supply chain networks:

Integrating electronic supply chain networks: managing a multitude of electronic supply chain networks to maximise availability, maintain security, reduce cost and exploit the potential of convergence.

Integrating physical supply chain networks: Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology enables ‘track and trace’ of physical assets and goods as they move through the supply chain. Given the data volumes RFID generates, strength in distributed networking, security and data hosting is crucial to successful deployment. Learn more >>

Extending your organisation with BT
BT helps organisations around the world develop closer relationships with partners and suppliers through tighter integration of their electronic and physical networks.

BT has been at the forefront of Auto ID/RFID thinking and practice for years. BT played a significant role in the UK Government's initial road-pricing trials in 1994.
We pioneered the practical use of RFID in one of the UK Home Office's Chipping of Goods projects, in conjunction with Dell.
BT is a member of AIM (the trade association for the AIDC industry) and the IPI Programme.
BT is a member of the Auto-ID Centre (an industrial research consortium founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with significant involvement in the development of Auto-ID standards and protocols.