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How Manufacturers Can Take Control of Inventory with RFID Technology

QAD

Manufacturers may not think they have much in common with the retail companies beyond producing the products that stock store shelves, but there could be a lot to learn from the latter as the manufacturing headwinds of the last few years carry into 2023. What is RFID Technology? RFID tags can reduce out of stocks by up to 80.3%

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Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative Tackles Warehouse Complexity

Logistics Viewpoints

The organization stored items in a logical manner, such as alphabetically, but did not slot for warehouse labor productivity. For example, SMECO wanted RFID capabilities to track the movement of high-value items as they entered and exited the yard. RFID is utilized for high-value yard/outdoor items.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS to deploy RFIDs through 100 facilities this year. UPS plans to implement its smart package initiative at 100 facilities in 2022, which will involve using RFID tags on packages to speed up throughput. RFID uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. The Czinger 21C costs $1.7

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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. For many reasons, that transformation did not happen and RFID was put on the industry’s back-burner. Two Specific Examples of RFID in the Supply Chain?

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

Last year, Walmart announced its latest expansion to its RFID program. This announcement, and other major RFID success stories, cast the technology in the spotlight on a national level. Even so, businesses have eyed RFID for many years. This announcement followed a successful trial run with an RFID system in 2002.

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Stop fraud with RFID: The hidden cost of returns

IT Supply Chain

By Daniël Doorman (pictured) Product Manager at Nedap Retail The post Stop fraud with RFID: The hidden cost of returns appeared first on IT Supply Chain.

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Predictive Quality: A future with less rejects and rework

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Both methods are closely related to the predictive maintenance use case but look at machine data from the standpoint of product quality rather than machine reliability. This procedure is rarely fully automated and in most cases is performed by data scientists in close cooperation with different departments close to production.