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Managing Director, AD Supply Chain Group Pty Ltd.
Carsten Baumann.
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Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006.
Managing Director, AD Supply Chain Group Pty Ltd.
Carsten Baumann.
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