Met a company that produces plastic bags for global retail gaints, and it got me thinking about how the humble plastic bag can be more useful. If each plastic bag has a pseudo-random serial number, complemented with a url like google docs, then one can set the plastic bag into part of a track and trace system for whichever contents it takes. It could be high-value medication that one wants to secure, luxury goods, or even a group of products with the same expiry that that a user wants to track together. It could leverage on Electronic Product Code - Information Systems (EPC IS) standards to enable a host of supply chain capabilities
One can link it to the point of use for pull supply chains to happen. Scanning the QR code also facilitates capturing of GPS location and timestamp for heatmaps and velocities to be analyzed.
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