Industry
Warehouse & Distribution
Capability
Enterprise Mobility
Application
ELD Modernization
Launch Year
2023
Industry
Warehouse & Distribution
Capability
Enterprise Mobility
Application
ELD Modernization
Launch Year
2023
Challenge
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
Featured Solution
- Mobile device management, custom mounting docks, software solutions
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
Ask
Diminished siloed operating systems, enabling real-time visibility.
Results
Diminished siloed operating systems, enabling real-time visibility, better communications, faster audits, increased worker safety and more.
Challenge
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
Featured Solution
- Mobile device management, custom mounting docks, software solutions
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
- Complying with federal ELD mandates.
Ask
Diminished siloed operating systems, enabling real-time visibility.
Results
Diminished siloed operating systems, enabling real-time visibility, better communications, faster audits, increased worker safety and more.
Scottish Courage, UK - keeping an eye on 32 million container movements.
Objective
Scottish Courage, one of the UK’s largest brewers, has been using RFID technology since 1998 in order to improve their containers (beer kegs) supply chain visibility.
The management of beer kegs is a very important issue to Scottish Courage as 75 percent of sales are targeted to ‘on trade’ market and 80 percent of these sales involve beer kegs (Miller, 2003). The company felt that losses were 2 happening due to theft or damages that Scottish Courage could not prove and therefore has to cost. According to the company’s RFID project director the losses due to the lack of asset location knowledge and poor supply chain visibility can sum up to £18 million per year.
Therefore they initiated a project (AVOS – Automatic Verification of Supply) costing more than £8 million where RFID technology could be used to improve their beer kegs visibility. According to Miller (2003) this project involved:
Scottish Courage, UK - keeping an eye on 32 million container movements.
Objective
Scottish Courage, one of the UK’s largest brewers, has been using RFID technology since 1998 in order to improve their containers (beer kegs) supply chain visibility.
The management of beer kegs is a very important issue to Scottish Courage as 75 percent of sales are targeted to ‘on trade’ market and 80 percent of these sales involve beer kegs (Miller, 2003). The company felt that losses were 2 happening due to theft or damages that Scottish Courage could not prove and therefore has to cost. According to the company’s RFID project director the losses due to the lack of asset location knowledge and poor supply chain visibility can sum up to £18 million per year.
Therefore they initiated a project (AVOS – Automatic Verification of Supply) costing more than £8 million where RFID technology could be used to improve their beer kegs visibility. According to Miller (2003) this project involved:
Benefits and Results
RFID projects have been found to be highly successful when applied to internal operations or for tracking goods between one or two trading partners. This occurs because RFID projects applied to larger supply chain networks call for the bringing together inter-company processes, data models and technological investments.
Cost is still seen as a barrier to item level deployment of the technology except on high value products in vertically integrated supply chains. The successful application of RFID tags in the retail industry at an item level is currently limited to specific ‘closed loop’ high value applications.
However, early return on investment is possible if investments are made in distribution and inventory management activities on a pallet level. In this way, it is possible to avoid stock-outs, monitor transport and distribution centres, secure correct shipments and accelerate logistics operations.
Benefits and Results
RFID projects have been found to be highly successful when applied to internal operations or for tracking goods between one or two trading partners. This occurs because RFID projects applied to larger supply chain networks call for the bringing together inter-company processes, data models and technological investments.
Cost is still seen as a barrier to item level deployment of the technology except on high value products in vertically integrated supply chains. The successful application of RFID tags in the retail industry at an item level is currently limited to specific ‘closed loop’ high value applications.
However, early return on investment is possible if investments are made in distribution and inventory management activities on a pallet level. In this way, it is possible to avoid stock-outs, monitor transport and distribution centres, secure correct shipments and accelerate logistics operations.
