RFID vs Barcodes in Business Central: Where Each One Wins

A $100,000 RFID system defeated by a pallet of eggs sounds like a joke, but it is ordinary warehouse physics.

In this episode of Inside Insights, we work through the Insight Works guide RFID Scanning for Warehouse Operations to sort out where RFID earns its place in a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central warehouse and where the printed barcode still wins.

We cover how passive tags draw power from the reader, what EPC data changes, the three hidden projects behind a fixed reader portal, why stray reads make RFID a poor fit for piece picking, and how license plating and camera-based batch scanning close the speed gap.

The takeaway: find your bottleneck first, then choose the technology, and use both where it makes sense, as Warehouse Insight supports RFID and barcodes side by side.