RFID helps warehousing logistics supply chain improve management efficiency

The "Double 11" shopping festival is coming. While consumers' shopping enthusiasm is being ignited, the express delivery industry, which is inseparable from it, has also entered the "preparation" stage ahead of schedule. This year's "Double 11" shopping carnival is longer than previous years in terms of time span. Since October, major e-commerce platforms have "run ahead", and the pre-sale wave is coming, attracting customers to place orders frequently. What followed was a substantial increase in the volume of express delivery.

Since the outbreak, China's domestic demand market has become a new hope for global business. In order to seize the strongest business growth opportunity of the year, millions of merchants are stocking up their goods into the "Double 11" warehouse.

In the warehouse, RFID technology is most widely used in accessing goods and inventory counting, and automating operations such as inventory and picking. Combining RFID technology with the planning of receiving, picking up, and shipping made by the supply chain planning system not only enhances the accuracy and speed of operations, improves service quality, reduces costs, saves labor and inventory space, and at the same time It reduces the loss caused by misplacement, wrong delivery, theft, damage, inventory, and shipping errors in the entire logistics process. It improves the transparency of Logistics Management and inventory turnover rate, and improves the logistics efficiency within the enterprise.

Application of RFID in logistics management

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Warehousing and distribution management

1) Install RFID Readers at the warehouse entrance and exit. After forklifts and goods with RFID tags enter the reading area, they are automatically identified and recorded; when leaving the distribution center, the RFID reader at the entrance of the channel reads the tag information and sends it to the system to automatically generate a delivery note; the truck arrives at the destination After landing in the warehouse, the RFID at the receiving port will automatically scan the goods on the vehicle to quickly complete the acceptance.

2) After the forklift and pallet are affixed with rfid tags, the system can track the location of the forklift and pallet at any time. This can greatly improve the efficiency of pallet cargo management and ensure timely and reliable cargo transportation information.

3) When the rfid reader is installed on the conveyor belt of the production line, when the rfid tagged goods pass through the conveyor belt, the information of the goods can be automatically and quickly obtained and recorded in the system; compared with the traditional manual and document sorting methods, it has the advantages of Automatic, efficient and labor-saving features. Workers only need simple operations to realize automatic operations such as the entry and exit of goods into and out of the warehouse, which is fast and error-free.

4) Warehouse personnel can collect and query information in the warehouse through handheld readers, which is convenient, fast, efficient and accurate. After the goods arrive at the destination, the warehouse personnel can quickly check the goods through the handheld terminal, and automatically record the storage situation.

5) When the warehouse personnel wear the tag and pass through the rfid reader, the system will automatically identify, track and monitor it.

6) Before the truck leaves the warehouse, it will be automatically identified by the RFID reader and transferred to the background for data comparison. If the transportation is wrong or lost, the system will automatically alarm to ensure the accuracy of the goods transportation.

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Real-time tracking management of cargo trucks

1) Stick labels on the windshield of the truck, the goods and the packaging. When a truck passes through each warehouse along the way, the reader installed at the warehouse door can automatically identify the truck, record the arrival time and cargo information, and upload it to the system background for comparison and verification to achieve real-time tracking.

2) When the trucks and items leave the warehouse, they will be identified by the reader at the warehouse exit, and record the departure time and information; , they are recognized by the entrance reader and record the arrival time, and then sent to the background server. In this way, the entire transportation process of vehicles and goods is automatically monitored in real time, and the location can be checked at any time through the system.

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Vehicle Access Management

Since the vehicle is tagged with an RFID tag, information such as the vehicle and driver is recorded in the tag. When importing and exporting through the warehouse, it is automatically identified by the RFID reader, which reduces the cumbersome manual processing, verification and recording, and greatly improves the management efficiency of the freight yard. The system can conveniently query relevant information in real time.

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Express Package Tracking

The RFID channel type inventory machine is used in the delivery of express parcels. When each item is affixed with a passive tag, when the item passes through the air and arrives at the postal area of the airport, the conveyor belt is equipped with an RFID channel antenna. When the package passes through the channel antenna, its position and information will be automatically read and sent to The background host system checks and compares, and if it finds that the purpose of the itinerary is wrong, it will light up and alarm. In this way, RFID ensures 100% delivery accuracy of express parcels.

Application of RFID in supply chain management

With the deepening of the global division of labor, the supply chain of modern enterprises is continuously extended, and it is characterized by fragmentation, complexity, and geographical dispersion, which brings great challenges to supply chain management. The finished products are largely provided by outsourced suppliers. Manufactured, and the number of suppliers is huge and distributed all over the place. This status quo has led to the opacity of the supply chain, and information asymmetry has led to high friction costs. RFID, with its fast, real-time, and accurate characteristics, can improve the control of the core enterprise over the supply chain, and thus make efficient and accurate traceability of products an important task. Reality.

IoT technologies such as RFID can build an alliance chain including manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, logistics companies, end users, etc. around the core enterprise, and record capital flow, information flow, and goods flow on the chain It cannot be tampered with, which greatly simplifies collaborative work. Real-time recording and sharing of the latest developments in each link of the supply chain enables core enterprises to penetrate the supply chain, understand the production, quality, and transportation of orders in a timely manner, and make the supply chain transparent and visualized.

The transparent construction of the supply chain will realize the information management of goods, improve the management level of manufacturing enterprises, reduce management costs, enhance core competitiveness, improve production efficiency, and shorten capital turnover time.

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Conducive to the reduction of enterprise inventory cost

Reduce the time of commodity inventory, reduce the degree of commodity backlog, and then realize "zero inventory", which can greatly save enterprises in raw material supply, warehousing and management expenses, and save a lot of investment in space costs.

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Conducive to the reduction of labor costs of enterprises

It enables the supply chain to reach a high level of automation, effectively saving traditional logistics center resource occupation and labor costs, saving order compound labor and transportation process confirmation costs.

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Conducive to the reduction of business transaction costs

It can quickly take inventory of inventory, reduce out-of-stock and out-of-stock products, and enable enterprises to replenish goods in time to meet market needs.

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Conducive to the enhancement of corporate brand and competitiveness

Enterprises can eliminate the negative impact caused by out of stock and enhance their market competitiveness. At the same time, through visual inventory management, the quality of customer service can be better improved, thereby further enhancing the corporate brand image.

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Conducive to improving the traceability of the supply chain

The modern supply chain includes all aspects of the production and distribution of goods, from raw materials to finished products delivered to consumers. The scope of the supply chain is extremely wide, the supervision is weak, and the buyer lacks a reliable way to verify the authenticity of the goods. The transparent construction of the supply chain can fully improve the traceability of the supply chain and protect the brand reputation.

Summarize

In the field of supply chain and logistics, enterprises must grasp the flow and changes of logistics in real time and accurately, and RFID can provide data input/output, control and tracking in business operations. It has high application value in various links such as procurement, storage, loading and unloading, transportation, distribution and inventory.