How RFID Delivers Shipping Accuracy and Cost Savings
In this PowerPoint presentation, with audio, recorded at RFID Journal LIVE! 2009, Dave Johnson, director of distribution and logistics, DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, explains how his company implemented an RFID system that dramatically improved shipping accuracy, shortened the typical check-in and -out times for kits of medical devices and made it possible to more accurately bill surgeons for the items they actually use.
DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, receives more than half of its ExpressKit orders to be shipped out on the same day they arrive. Employees had to bar-code-scan each component in each kit twice—sometimes more than 100 per kit—then repack them before shipping.
In this PowerPoint presentation, with audio, recorded at RFID Journal LIVE! 2009, Dave Johnson, director of distribution and logistics, DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, explains how his company implemented an RFID system that dramatically improved shipping accuracy, shortened the typical check-in and -out times for kits of medical devices and made it possible to more accurately bill surgeons for the items they actually use.
DePuy has reduced the time required to process each returned Express Care set to less than one minute—a process that formerly took 10 to 30 minutes to complete. Employees place the kits on a conveyor that brings them through an RFID reader tunnel. After each kit moves through the tunnel, software shows the worker which components are missing from that kit. A completed kit is then sent through the tunnel once more prior to shipment, to verify that it is complete.
Click on the screen to start the presentation.
In this PowerPoint presentation, with audio, recorded at RFID Journal LIVE! 2009, Dave Johnson, director of distribution and logistics, DePuy, a division of Johnson & Johnson, explains how his company implemented an RFID system that dramatically improved shipping accuracy, shortened the typical check-in and -out times for kits of medical devices and made it possible to more accurately bill surgeons for the items they actually use.
DePuy has reduced the time required to process each returned Express Care set to less than one minute—a process that formerly took 10 to 30 minutes to complete. Employees place the kits on a conveyor that brings them through an RFID reader tunnel. After each kit moves through the tunnel, software shows the worker which components are missing from that kit. A completed kit is then sent through the tunnel once more prior to shipment, to verify that it is complete.
Click on the screen to start the presentation.
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