RFID in Supply Chain Management

The RFID system features

  • Streamline shipping & receiving processes.
  • Verification of products’ final destination, carrier and dock door
  • Confirmation of individual items with customer orders
  • Accelerated fulfilment of rush orders
  • Alert staff and customers of potential misshipments or delays.
  • Trigger automatic inventory replenishment when stock is low.
  • Flag rush orders by comparing order number & special instructions
  • Real-time Visibility of returnable transport items such as pallets, crates, metal boxes, and kegs during the transport process and at any time.
  • Current unreturned assets from the supply chain.
  • Real-time view of inventory has are being updated in a single dashboard.
  • Automatic counting of outgoing and incoming items.
  • Maintenance, cleaning, and repair status of returnable transport units

RFID in Supply Chain Management

  1. RFID Tags – Pallets, Cages, Crates, Kegs, Shelves etc
  2. RFID Readers – Fixed, Mobile and Handheld readers
  3. Middleware & Application Hardware – Enterprise Servers
  4. End User Devices- Personal Computers, Tablets and Smartphones
  5. Network – Wired, Wireless, GPS, WWAN, and Bluetooth
  6. Alarm System – I/O Controller for Lights & Buzzers
  7. RFID Middleware – High-level hardware enabled application
  8. Supply Chain Management Software – Windows/ Web-enabled and Mobile versions

Benefits of RFID enabled Supply Chain Management

  1. High ROI – savings from stiffing and higher staff efficiency
  2. Totally Paperless Real Time Solution – Green Initiative
  3. Automatic expiry date tracking of stocks.
  4. Real-time tracking of inventory in the warehouse, in transit and in-store.
  5. Real time update of supply chain management information
  6. Reduction in time for checking, counting and logging product at all levels of the supply chain will deliver great savings.
  7. The ability to accurately know what you have and where will reduce safety stock, enable better timing of replenishment and give better data on where to forecast future demand.
  8. In-store product can be located on the go.
  9. Reduce to almost human errors in supply chain record entry as entry are made automatically.
  10. Easy access to fresh category data