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
- RFID Tags – Pallets, Cages, Crates, Kegs, Shelves etc
- RFID Readers – Fixed, Mobile and Handheld readers
- Middleware & Application Hardware – Enterprise Servers
- End User Devices- Personal Computers, Tablets and Smartphones
- Network – Wired, Wireless, GPS, WWAN, and Bluetooth
- Alarm System – I/O Controller for Lights & Buzzers
- RFID Middleware – High-level hardware enabled application
- Supply Chain Management Software – Windows/ Web-enabled and Mobile versions
Benefits of RFID enabled Supply Chain Management
- High ROI – savings from stiffing and higher staff efficiency
- Totally Paperless Real Time Solution – Green Initiative
- Automatic expiry date tracking of stocks.
- Real-time tracking of inventory in the warehouse, in transit and in-store.
- Real time update of supply chain management information
- Reduction in time for checking, counting and logging product at all levels of the supply chain will deliver great savings.
- 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.
- In-store product can be located on the go.
- Reduce to almost human errors in supply chain record entry as entry are made automatically.
- Easy access to fresh category data