As part of their RFID trials, Unilever has been tagging cases of its products using EPC Global's EPCIS standard. Unilever is expecting that EPCIS will help them eliminate some of the time and cost of the supply chain for CPGs (Consumer Packaged Goods).

Unilever's trial uses a new prototype data repository based on EPCIS and created by IBM. The repository also uses the XML standard, so data can be sent back and forth more conveniently to and from software applications. XML is a generalized markup language that is fast replacing the HTML code that powers web pages on the Internet, but can also be used for other software purposes.

Sources: RFID Journal.