Inventory / Warehouse Management News

This section includes articles about how companies across many different industries are using RFID to improve their inventory management and warehouse operations.

Dutch Tire Company Bonds EPC Tags to Retreads

Roline is using a solution from Ferm RFID to better manage its retreading and inventory processes, and to enable customers to track tires installed on their vehicles.

Tags: Manufacturing, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• Tag-Reading Robot Wins RFID Journal's Coolest Demo Contest
• Social Security Administration Tracks Data-Center Assets
• RFID, GPS Bring Visibility to Construction of BP Oil Platform
• Coster Group Boosts Logistics Efficiency
• RFID Journal, Microelectronics Technology Inc. and Enso Detego Introduce FiND-iT
• Fraunhofer IFF Develops Tracking Solution Using RFID, GPS and Cellular Technology
• Hong Kong Rail Company Tracks Components Via RFID
• New Alien UHF Tags Target Challenging Retail Environments
• C&A Expands RFID Usage to Track Inventory

Inventory / Warehouse Management Case Studies

Marks & Spencer Rolls Out RFID to All Its Stores

The U.K. retailer is updating its radio frequency identification technology as it moves to tag all apparel and hard goods.

Tags: Retail, Apparel, Supply Chain, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• Cessna Looks to RFID for Unlimited Visibility
• Global Logistics Company Monitors Shipments' Temperatures
• Portuguese Airline TAPs Into RFID
• RFID Helps U.K. Tool-Rental Company Better Serve Customers

Inventory / Warehouse Management Features

RFID Journal LIVE! 2013 Report, Part 1

At RFID Journal's 11th annual conference and exhibition, attendees learned how to use RFID technologies to track and manage a wide variety of assets. View the presentations from the event's keynotes, general sessions, preconference seminars and post-conference workshops.

Tags: Defense, Aerospace, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Retail, Apparel, Supply Chain, Innovation, Inventory / Warehouse Management, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• Benefits Fuel RFID Deployments
• It's Time for CEOs to Take the Lead
• RFID Journal LIVE! Europe—UK Report
• Manufacturing Value

Inventory / Warehouse Management Editor's Notes

Can Anyone in the Obama Administration Spell 'RFID'?

The president called for Congress to authorize $1 billion for ill-defined support for manufacturing, while ignoring the RFID revolution in its backyard.

Tags: Defense, Health Care, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, IT/Infrastructure, Asset Tracking, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• Predictions for RFID in 2013
• 2012: A Year of Progress
• RFID in Brazil
• Embedding RFID in Electronics Makes Sense

Inventory / Warehouse Management Expert Views

Don't Just Automate—Innovate!

RFID can do much more than speed up existing processes.

Tags: Retail, Apparel, Innovation, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• Innovative Manufacturing Execution System Reduces Barriers to RFID Adoption in South China
• Move to 0HIO
• Tracking Your Competitors
• Next-Generation EPCIS

Inventory / Warehouse Management Best Practices

A Guide to RFID Apparel Retail Solutions

Tagging and tracking items can help clothing merchandisers better manage inventory, improve on-shelf availability and reap other benefits to boost the bottom line. Here's what you need to know to choose the best solution for your company.

Tags: Manufacturing, Apparel, Asset Tracking, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• Plan an RFID Rollout That Stays On Track

Inventory / Warehouse Management How To Articles

How to Deploy a Health-Care Real-Time Location System

Strategic advice from four hospitals that are tagging and tracking assets—and achieving a return on their investment—can help you plan a successful solution.

Tags: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, IT/Infrastructure, Asset Tracking, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• How to RFID-Enable Your Warehouse
• How to Evaluate Competing Tag Technologies
• How to Select the Right RFID Tag
• How to Choose RFID Middleware

Inventory / Warehouse Management Videos

• Visual Tagging: The Next Generation of Auto-ID
  Automatic-identification technology has traditionally relied upon machine-readable identification (bar codes and RFID) to track assets and ensure that processes remain reliable and repeatable. Today, ...
  Tags: Aerospace, Asset Tracking, Inventory / Warehouse Management, Logistics, Manufacturing, Webinars
• Learn How RFID Can Help Your Business With RFID Essentials Web-Based Training
  RFID Journal's RFID Essentials is an interactive, Web-based training course developed by industry experts that puts you, the learner, in the driver's seat. Real-world applications requiring critical t...
  Tags: Asset Tracking, Innovation, Inventory / Warehouse Management, Inventory/Warehouse, IT/Infrastructure, Registration Not Required, Supply Chain

Inventory / Warehouse Management White Papers

• Yard Management: An Operator's Perspective
  Published June 2013
  Zebra Technologies' Charles H. Kerr reviews the major segments of yard-management systems (YMS) and discusses key points that should be considered when choosing such a solution. The application of real-time locating system (RTLS) and RFID tech¬nologies is supported by some YMS products, which enhances solutions for larger and more complex yard operations. Kerr discusses gate management, yard operations, switcher productivity and dock-door management, and explains how an effective YMS provides planning, management and execution in the yard, facilitating increased flow velocity of goods moving through the supply chain. (6 pages)
  Tags: Supply Chain, Asset Tracking, Operations, Inventory / Warehouse Management
• Improving Aircraft Maintenance Management Using RFID
  Published May 2013
  Airlines have been late adopters of advanced inventory-management systems, particularly involving AIDC technologies, since aircraft maintenance management is highly industry-specific, considerably regulated and subject to many complexities not present in other industries. With the recent emergence of the U.S Federal Aviation Administration's regulatory airworthiness criteria for flyable RFID, and the recently agreed-upon interoperability data standards, there is now an opportunity for airlines to achieve short- and long-term wins. This essay, from Laminar Aerospace's Marco Andreacchio, outlines how RFID could support a paperless supply chain strategy, and details many key tangible and nontangible benefits for airlines. (7 pages)
  Tags: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Inventory / Warehouse Management