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Oracle Solutions for Retailers’ RFID Mandates Qiming Huang Senior Strategic Development Manager

Antenna IC (0.5mm) Substrate Connection Radio Frequency Identification- a method of identifying unique items using radio waves

Inlay RFID Label RFID Label Rolls RFID Inlay & RFID Label

RFID Devices  RFID Fixed Readers Typically support several antennas per reader Interface via serial port or Ethernet Dock station portal, smart shelf, gate entry Read/write tags  RFID Mobile Readers Handheld device with built in reader Embedded into shopping carts or forklifts Read/write tags  RFID Printer Embedded reader module in tag printer Print/write/read tags

RFID Market Drivers Retail Mandates Retailer RFID Initiative Companies Affected Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags January ’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags January ’s of High Tech and Electronics Companies Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags Spring 2005, ’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags April ’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags November ’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies Mandate for suppliers to ship pallets and cases with RFID tags September ’s of CPG and Manufacturing Companies

RFID Market Drivers Other Mandates Agency / Group RFID Initiative Companies Affected By 2010, all pallets and cases shipped to large depots run by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) will have to have passive RFID tags. 40,000+ CPG and Manufacturing Companies Endorsed use of RFID to track all drugs at the unit level by 2007 to create an electronic "pedigree” to reduce counterfeiting All Pharmaceutical companies and potentially all pharmacies and healthcare providers Endorsed use of RFID tags for US-Visit program, Smart and Secure Tradelanes, U.S. Customs Container Security Initiative (CSI), Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), Operation Safe Commerce. All companies shipping goods to and from the US Cooperate to set standards for using RFID and other auto-id technologies for parts tracking and identification Airlines, parts suppliers, regulatory agencies and third-party maintenance repair and overhaul shops, which do contracted maintenance on behalf of airlines

Tagging and Shipping Enabling Supplier Compliance & Internal Transfers  Increase picking accuracy Hundreds of items look similar Mistakes easy to make & costly to correct  Tags on every case & reader at dock door  EPC compliance for suppliers 1)Pick cases2)Generate EPC numbers, print tags, apply tags, build pallet 3)Read EPC numbers, validate shipment 4) Send ASN to customer 5) Ship Distribution Center / Warehouse

Two Deployment Solutions  Oracle Sensor Edge Server & Compliance Workspace Only  Included in Fusion Middleware  RFID Printer – e.g. Zebra  RFID Reader – e.g. Symbol  Light Stack –Optional, e.g. Patlite  Oracle Sensor Edge Server & Oracle WMS  Included in Fusion Middleware and EBS  Enabled RFID in WMS  RFID Printer – e.g. Zebra  RFID Reader – e.g. Symbol  Light stack – Optional, e.g. Patlite

RSCW Architecture RFID Supplier Compliance Workspace (RSCW) Sensor Edge Server Oracle Application Server Sensor Data Repository Oracle Database Compliance Services Compliance Workspace Custom Apps Label Printing

RSCW Workflow Data Import   RFID Tag Association Verification Oracle RFID Supplier Compliance Workspace  EPC Generation Data Export  Supplier  Label Printing Oracle Applications Packaged Applications Legacy Applications

RSCW Pros & Cons  For non-WMS customers or lower-version-WMS customers  Stand-alone compliance solutions  Minimum impact to current system and business  Part of Application Server JE, SE, EE and EDA  Small footprint and easy deployment–3 to 5 days  Turn-key solution integrated with hardware  Supporting all EPC encodings  Extensible and Flexible  Requires integration with ERP system (Optional)

Sensor Edge Server Dispatchers Device Drivers Driver Internal Queue Streams JMS SOAP HTTP E-Business Apps Event Processor Streams De-queue, parse and prep API calls WMS Enabled Receiving Shipping Existing APIs Inventory QA WIP EAM and others The current E-Business Apps release (11i10) includes support for WMS Receipt and Shipping transactions. RFID enabling other transactions is possible via enhancement and could leverage existing API calls. Groups Filters & Rules WMS Architecture Warehouse Management System (WMS)

 Load of pallets and / or cartons with RFID tags on each  Drive load through RFID Reader in Receiving Dock Oracle Sensor Edge Server  Interface to readers, clean and filter data, then pass IDs to application WMS RFID Event Processor  Access objects associated with the ID's (e.g. LPN's on ASN) then raise correct Business Event WMS Application APIs  Process the Business Event, e.g. Receipt of pallet or carton  Access associated source document, e.g. the PO’s ASN WMS Response & Exception Handling  Confirm success or failure, e.g. trigger green light or sound buzzer  Putaway, rescan or divert material WMS Shipping & Receiving (WMS 11i10) Built-In Support for High-Volume Business Flows

WMS Pros & Cons  For WMS customers with WMS version  Built-in compliance solutions in WMS  Large footprint and complicated deployment- 3 to 5 days for enabling RFID only  Dependency on SES  Turn-key solution integrated with hardware  Supporting all EPC constructs  Extensible and Flexible  Out-of-box integrated with WMS and other ERP flows

“After two months of research and analysis, we selected Oracle Sensor Edge Server as our compliance solution. At the time, we had absolute no experience with RFID and EPC technology. Within one day, the Oracle team showed us how to deploy the system and integrate with the necessary hardware. In the next two months, one of our IT staff members installed and configured Oracle Sensor Edge Server in our warehouse and connected it with Zebra RFID printers and Alien RFID readers. Since we started shipping products to retailers requiring RFID tags, we have not been contacted about any read rate complaints. The system runs stable without a dedicated maintenance resource. With Oracle Sensor Edge Server as part of Oracle Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Suite, we finished the project successfully on time and within budget.” -- Steve Yokoyama, IT Program Manager, Gateway Computer Reference Customer Challenges  Meet the retailers’ mandates in a short period of time with limited budget and no RFID experience.  Ship products to multiple retailers with different RFID tag encodings.  Print RFID labels with varied label layouts, contents, and dimensions.  Verify shipment with RFID labels automatically. Benefits  Fast deployment and easy implementation.  100% acceptance rate on all shipments to RFID enabled retailers.  Plug and play framework for hardware.  Low maintenance cost due to stable system.  Supporting multiple tag encodings and label formats with flexible and configurable system.  Reduced shipping time and errors with auto-verification.

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