OVERVIEW
RFID technology
Transform your supply chain with RFID
What is RFID?The next step after bar codes, radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that allows you to remotely identify a unique object using radio frequency transmission
What can RFID do for your business?By enabling the tracking and integration of the end-to-end supply chain, RFID can help make your supply chain more efficient and cost effective, offering substantial improvements in areas such as:
- Lower total cost of print
- Reduce administration costs
- Increase end user optimization
- Improve utilization
- Better manage and track assets
- Improve security
- Asset and inventory tracking and management
- Asset utilization
- Enhanced security
- Health and environmental safety and compliance
- Cashless payments
- Product verification
- Quality assurance
- Reduced lead times
- Improved service levels
- Forecasting
- Just-in-time manufacturing
Potential areas of ROI include:
- Measurable impact to labor costs
- Error reduction—via automation to reduce mis-shipments, lost inventory and redundant data reads
- Productivity gains achieved through automation and better use of skilled resources
- Qualitative results related to improved customer service and reduced warranty handling
- Achievement of regulatory compliance requirements
RFID vs. BARCODES
RFID technology
Transform your supply chain with RFID
In terms of efficiency, dependability, data capacity, flexibility and authentication, RFID has barcodes beat. Take a look at the comparison:
| Bar code | RFID | |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency | Read one tag at a time (line of sight required) | Read multiple tags simultaneously (no line of sight required) |
| Dependability | Easily damaged | Reusable tags (chips) are less susceptible to physical damage |
| Data capacity | Limited amount of data | Ability to capture more granular information about products |
| Flexibility | Static information | Potential for read/write capability, making tags reusable and changeable |
| Authentication | Reproducible and not specific to an item | Tags are specific to an item and cannot be copied |
ASK THE EXPERTS
RFID technology
Transform your supply chain with RFID
Ready to start? Ask the experts.InfoPrint Solutions Company holds the highest number of RFID-related patents each year for the last 10 years. An early proponent and user of RFID, InfoPrint Solutions Company has the expertise and experience to assist you with strategy, assessment, planning, design, justification, implementation, change management and support.
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