Ed. Note: This article was previously posted at IoP Journal.
For years, companies from various markets and geographic locations have been alerted to the need to adapt to the use of cutting-edge technologies to improve efficiency and eliminate business losses. With the expansion of automation thanks to radio frequency identification (RFID), as well as gains from Industry 4.0 and Internet of Packaging (IoP) processes, manufacturers in all segments, including apparel, durable goods, food and beverages, and pharmaceuticals, are quickly adapting to the new business reality in their ecosystems.
Using an enterprise management system (ERP), for example, has not been an option for several years. Many companies in denial lost competitiveness and had to fight to survive once they realized the waste of time to which they were subjected due to the delay in the adoption of management technology. Meanwhile, other less flexible companies simply failed.
Maicon Berkembrock, Sisplan’s director
The same risk process is taking place today, with some entrepreneurs not accepting the processes of change, acceleration, gain in competitiveness, control of processes and physical inventories, among other advances that RFID technologies and the IoP are bringing to 21st-century companies. While some have already begun to look to suppliers to study the technologies, others, whether consciously or unconsciously, are closing their doors.
Sisplan, an ERP company from Santa Catarina, Brazil, and iTAG, one of the largest RFID and Internet of Packaging implementers in the Brazilian market, have joined forces to offer solutions that the market is demanding from several companies in the Santa Catarina region, primarily in the clothing industry.
Large retailers such as Lojas Renner, C&A and Havan are using RFID and IoP in their processes, and are requiring suppliers to ship goods with electronic tags. It is a path of no return that requires, in addition to the constant improvement of the product quality, a business vision with cutting-edge technology allowing traceability, location and control of stocks with a high level of reliability and accuracy.
You can watch an exclusive IoP Journal interview (recorded in Portuguese) with Maicon Berkembrock, Sisplan’s director, to understand the technological partnership with iTAG and the benefits that this partnership between two leading Brazilian companies will bring to firms already using ERP systems from the developer in Santa Catarina.