As RFID tags can improve a business

To demonstrate how RFID tags can greatly influence the fate of a business for the better, take a look at a controversial case. Take the example of a furniture manufacturer, specialized in providing a furniture chain.

This may seem like a case with no relevance to SMEs, but in reality, hotel chains are terribly demanding and without loyalty, so if they can meet these people, you can meet someone.

The main chain of hotels are that orders are met and in time, the quality of the products of the supplier has already determined through the ISO 9000 quality control and factory visits.

The hotel furniture manufacturer decides to introduce the passive RFID tags to track its elements from the point of production to the point of delivery, which is the hotel or its storage area.

In the previous conditions, the manufacturer had used some personal walk with barcode readers and clip tips on quality control and execution of orders.

The concern is that the provision was subject to human error and articles are still missing, bringing the compensating management over production and storage "just in case".

This is a fairly current scenario, but the difficulties are multiplied when you think of all the different items of furniture that are involved in the bathroom, a Hall or a hotel room and if they are kept in a warehouse of 200,000 square feet. Things are lost, forklift drivers make mistakes, people forget forms of inventory, fell ill and have a holiday.

In short, a stock like this execution is a nightmare with too much pressure on employees. Sometimes causes defective deliveries or, worse yet, imperfect delivery tickets. Sometimes the order can be complete, but the hotel could not think why the delivery note was wrong.

If this company was to start checking active RFID that you could connect an RFID tag full of furniture. The tag I would say where it is, what it is, that is, when we have delivered and what else is part of the order. The tag is read consistently from readers of RFID inventory warning when orders are delayed or is still incomplete.

Not only that, but the tags may reveal what needs to be done and if the element itself has passed quality control. You can also say that someone has found problems. In short, for example, a couple of people walking around the shop in the hope that they have everything covered, you can have radio sensors analyze each tag in a warehouse the size of a football field, reports back to a central computer, where the shop manager can access real-time information, not just the State of affairs at the close of business the day before.

This should increase the probability of the Manager to manage, reduce waste, to ensure the complete orders on levels of time and greater customer satisfaction, which should mean that more repeat orders.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece written on various topics, but is currently involved in RFID asset management. If you want to learn more, please visit our Web site to the active management RFID.