Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) is rapidly gaining ground in the Yard Management industry. One avenue where it can provide significant advantages is to track, secure and manage items from the time they enter the yard/warehouse through the entire transit. Warehouse/Yard agents can especially benefit from RFID because the technology can make internal processes more efficient and improve responsiveness

Business Challenges:

• Increased pressure to better manage the assets, inventory and labour
• Lack of visibility and decision support capabilities
• Disruptions in product flow that cause customer service
• Increased labour costs

Solution:

Rasilant Technologies has overcome these hurdles faced by Warehouses, by developing a solution for tracking the inward and outward movement of materials within a warehouse. This is achieved by pasting RFID tags on the materials and installing RFID Readers and Antennas at the check points which typically would be the entry/exit points of the warehouse.

All the material information like source, manufacturing date, place, and destination location are all entered against the tag ID. Whenever any material is moved from the warehouse an alert is generated which gets updated in the system database. In case any avoidable material is being moved out of the warehouse an alarm will be raised through the system which will further alert the security

Also during the life span of the materials within the warehouse, a regular inventory update is possible using RFID enabled handheld devices which will keep the system updated about the location within the premises. Also a constant monitoring of the materials will be possible at anytime by increasing the number of readers and antennas.

Strategic Implications:

• Increased Operational Excellence
• Eliminates time-consuming, manual checks of equipment in your yard
• Easily deployed browser-based application that compliments existing enterprise systems
• Coordinates and optimizes inventory accurately
• Ensures Quality Control
• Increased productivity & Reduced opportunity cost
• Avoids additional integration cost
• Reduced Sunk Costs
• Customer Satisfaction