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Tetas Textiles Tracks Deliveries
Managers in the company's logistics department also employ the car information system to closely monitor the number of kilometers driven by each car, as a way to evaluate shipping performance, using the data to calculate the cost of each journey.
The project was not Tetas' first foray into radio frequency identification. In 2006, the company implemented RFID to track pallets at its 8,500-square-meter (91,500-square-foot) warehouse in Tekbes, near Izmir. Before RFID was implemented, Tetas did not use any form of electronic identification for tracking the 25,000 different items it supplies to its 6,000 customers, most of which are apparel manufacturers. Since implementing the system, the company has rolled out RFID at all six of its warehouses, and has integrated the technology with its Oracle E-Business Suite.
The system works with pallets that are tagged with ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) passive tags complying with the EPC Gen 2 standard. RFID interrogators and antennas installed on forklifts identify the pallets. When a driver unloads a pallet on a high rack, the forklift reader identifies the rack and shelf numbers. In addition, as the vehicle moves about within the warehouse, another antenna on the bottom of the forklift identifies EPC Gen 2 RFID tags embedded in the floor, thus identifying the vehicle's location. When goods pass through the warehouse's entrances and exits, RFID interrogators installed at those locations read the passive tags on the pallets.
The combined information provides Tetas with a real-time overview of the exact locations of all goods within its warehouse, and enables it to take inventory quickly. "It now takes us two hours to count the warehouse," Yaffe states. "We increased efficiency by 30 to 35 percent."
The company purchased a variety of RFID interrogators to outfit its 20 forklifts and its doorways. It uses 10 Siemens fixed readers, as well as nine handheld ATID interrogators and one handheld Nordic ID reader for spot identification of tagged objects. The handheld units operate on RFID software provided by Reva Systems. Most of the 13,000 tags used each year in the application are supplied by UPM Raflatac. Tetas developed its own middleware for the system, and served as its own project integrator.
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The project was not Tetas' first foray into radio frequency identification. In 2006, the company implemented RFID to track pallets at its 8,500-square-meter (91,500-square-foot) warehouse in Tekbes, near Izmir. Before RFID was implemented, Tetas did not use any form of electronic identification for tracking the 25,000 different items it supplies to its 6,000 customers, most of which are apparel manufacturers. Since implementing the system, the company has rolled out RFID at all six of its warehouses, and has integrated the technology with its Oracle E-Business Suite.
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| When goods pass through the warehouse entrances and exits, RFID interrogators installed there read the RFID tags on the pallets. |
The system works with pallets that are tagged with ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) passive tags complying with the EPC Gen 2 standard. RFID interrogators and antennas installed on forklifts identify the pallets. When a driver unloads a pallet on a high rack, the forklift reader identifies the rack and shelf numbers. In addition, as the vehicle moves about within the warehouse, another antenna on the bottom of the forklift identifies EPC Gen 2 RFID tags embedded in the floor, thus identifying the vehicle's location. When goods pass through the warehouse's entrances and exits, RFID interrogators installed at those locations read the passive tags on the pallets.
The combined information provides Tetas with a real-time overview of the exact locations of all goods within its warehouse, and enables it to take inventory quickly. "It now takes us two hours to count the warehouse," Yaffe states. "We increased efficiency by 30 to 35 percent."
The company purchased a variety of RFID interrogators to outfit its 20 forklifts and its doorways. It uses 10 Siemens fixed readers, as well as nine handheld ATID interrogators and one handheld Nordic ID reader for spot identification of tagged objects. The handheld units operate on RFID software provided by Reva Systems. Most of the 13,000 tags used each year in the application are supplied by UPM Raflatac. Tetas developed its own middleware for the system, and served as its own project integrator.
