1. Cyril Ovely CTO Vxceed Technologies FZ LLC cyril@vxceed.com
RFID Case Studies
Cyril Ovely
CTO Vxceed Technologies FZ LLC

2. Agenda RFID Technology adoption issues Case Studies
Solution Architecture
Vxceed

3. RFID adoption issues- Reliability
Tags not robust, reliable and tamperproof = savings disappear
Concurrency
Tag alignment
Read rates
Fixing of tags
Nature of product and packaging
Environment

4. RFID adoption issues- IT cost
True cost of adoption is not so apparent at first.
Cost of ERP upgrades, Integration both EAI and partner integration, server and network infrastructure, data management, setup and management of distributed reader network
Who pays?

5. RFID adoption issues- ROI
Some Positive ROI industries and application areas: apparel retail, automobile, Parma, CPG suppliers.
Retailers (Apparel)
Improve Customer service
Decrease top-line losses (5-15%)
Locate mislaid products, deter theft
Personalized sales pitches in dressing room kiosks
Decrease checkout labor

6. RFID adoption issues- ROI
CPG suppliers
Visibility of inventory and raw material flows reduce costs
Warehouse labor costs reduction through efficient receiving, shipping and exception handling
Vendor managed inventory to reduce stock out and inventory costs
Products tagged in factories can be tracked in supply-chain

7. Case Studies

8. Pastalini Foods Pasta manufacturing and repackaging Goals
Real time visibility of inventory and Raw materials
Automated receiving and shipping
Location of SKU’s in warehouse
Fork lift drivers are to be guided in picking and placement. (FIFO)
Full integration with ERP system

9. Pastalini Foods
Pilot tagging of pallets is sufficient but do we have a strong business case, ROI?
Problem area split into two parts
Warehouse receiving, put-away and picking
Real time inventory
Pilot project involved tagging of all warehouse locations with tags embedded into floor and fork lift mounted reader and mounted wireless PDT with barcode scanner.

10. Pastalini Foods

13. Al Dobowi  Group
Sole Distributor of tires Pirelli, Hankook and rethreading of tires
Parallel imports eroding profits, brand
Warranty claims
Automated shipping

15. Large Container Company
Container and rail wagon tracking
Combined technology solution
Active RFID Tags on all wagon chassis loaded with containers
3rd party GPS Tag on 1 wagon chassis per train consist
RFID Reader Infrastructure at Terminals Only
Custom Data collation platform and Asset Management System

16. Large Container Company
Alerts: *
* Pager
Web Browser
- Rake Build-Up
- Container Loading
- Train Out
- Train In
- Container Unloading
- Rake Disassembly
At The Terminals:
Web Server /
Web Services
AMS associates containers, wagons & trains
to provide combined tracking events
Asset Management System
Tracking by RFID
- RFID on each Wagon Chassis
- Container association to wagon
- Wagon association to train
- Train association to route
Data collation Platform
Integrates real-time RFID & GPS/GSM
GPS/GSM
Location HH
RFID
GSM
Hand-Held Reader
RFID Tag - battery powered
GSM Tag - battery powered
Service HH HH
RFID
RFID
RFID
GPS/GSM
RFID
RFID
Mumbai Terminal RFID Tracking
Tracking by GPS/GSM tag
Delhi Terminal RFID Tracking
- Single GPS/GSM Tag on single wagon chassis
Association of single wagon to train provides implied location of all
containers.
- Periodic location update by GPS/GSM id.

17. Other- Work in progress
Battery Manufacturer
Manufacture of car and truck batteries
Product tracking through supply chain
Large transportation company
Transportation and Vehicle reseller
Tracking of 3000 buses during Hajj
A global airline
Automated billing for Chauffer drive service

18. Solution Architecture

19. Solution Components MS BIZTALK XML WEB SERVICES ASP.NET; IIS
MS SQL SERVER
C#; ASP.NET; IIS

20. Vxceed’s offerings Hands-on experience in real world RFID
Product and environment analysis
Hardware evaluation and procurement
Selection of scalable architecture model
Plan and execute a replicable Pilot
Implementation and Integration to ERP
Post implementation support

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