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Reusable asset tracking solution from IBM
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| Automate processes across your supply chain
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Are you looking for a solution to improve your asset management and inventory processes? IBM offers an innovative, reusable asset tracking solution that is based on radio frequency identification (RFID). From retail to distribution, travel and transportation and consumer products, you can improve logistics, shipping, receiving and procurement operations across the supply chain to your trading partners.
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| A pioneer in RFID technology
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Based on our RFID experience, we have developed a comprehensive reusable asset tracking solution that supports clients from strategy through pilot, deployment and ongoing management. IBM:
- Has worked with RFID for more than 10 years and understands the technology, the marketplace, and the client needs.
- Is leading the RFID market with the intention of becoming the business advisor and system integrator of choice.
- Executes true end-to-end solutions in RFID for the long term.
- Is driving the market in development and deployment of RFID solutions.
- Continues to work closely with the major independent software vendors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), including tag and reader vendors, to deliver a complete solution to our clients.
- Works to provide solutions across the whole spectrum of RFID, including leading the market with RFID-enabled middleware.
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| Dynamic near real-time asset tracking
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More accurate and up-to-date information can help you create a more collaborative data-sharing environment across your enterprise and with trading partners. Streamline operations and gain the ability to analyze trends. Pull virtual real-time data from the retail store, distribution center or factory floor into backend databases and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. With our reusable asset tracking solution, you can:
- Improve inventory accuracy with better inventory management and on-time ordering.
- Gain asset visibility with automated data capture.
- Reduce asset and inventory holding by obtaining knowledge of what you have and where it is, in virtual real-time.
- Experience more accurate and timely data collection to expedite operations.
- Replace manual or paper-based asset and inventory management processes, while gaining information on tagged assets, such as lot code, expiration date, born-on date and country of origin.
- Create a flexible business environment, enabling your enterprise to respond to customers quickly.
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| Increase distribution center productivity
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In shipping products, RFID tagging allows you to know a product’s exact location, serial number, color, and place of assembly or packing to help eliminate out-of-stock instances. By automating data capture and verification, our solution streamlines inventory management at the case and pallet level. Whether product shipments are inbound or outbound, RFID-tagged pallets and cases are automatically processed, tracked and managed as they move through the supply chain. This also helps identify fraudulent or counterfeit goods—without opening containers. And before wrong shipments are made, RFID tracking can quickly identify the error and correct it to prevent costly shipping mistakes. The result is increased distribution center productivity and happier customers.
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| Improve asset visibility and reduce out-of-stocks
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The reusable asset tracking solution from IBM can help you improve asset visibility, reducing out-of-stocks, decreasing downtime and enhancing productivity.
- Improve inventory visibility from the retail store throughout the supply chain with asset awareness.
- Reduce delays, lost productivity, out-of-stocks and unnecessary replacement costs with the ability to locate critical assets in a timely manner.
- Gain early notification of quality issues to reduce defective production and avoid breakdowns in the supply chain as well as line stoppages.
- Identify fraudulent or counterfeit goods and costly shipping errors before they occur by knowing a product’s exact location, serial number, color, and place of assembly or packing.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM sensors and actuators specialist.
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