White Papers

A Four-Step Plan for Adopting RFID

by Nikki Baird, director of product marketing at Viewlocity Inc.

RFID is about collecting real-time information about activities in the supply chain. In order to get value from that information, you need to have the ability to respond with agility to exceptions identified within that information. To achieve that agility, you need to follow four incremental steps.

The Wireless Factory

by Belgravium Partner, Cisco Systems

For manufacturers, success or failure - profit or loss - is increasingly determined by their ability to react swiftly to changes in their markets. These changes are driven by a number of factors. Speed of response, the ability to retool for new production and the capacity to manage every part of the production line with the optimal efficiency each contribute to the pressure on manufacturers to perform at the highest level at all times.

Having the agility that this degree of responsiveness to change demands is a key determinant of a manufacturer's capacity to create and sustain competitive advantage.

Switch On Your Vision

By Howard Dearing , Sales Manager EMEA, with Belgravium Partner Aquitec

For decades, retail and wholesale businesses have used supply chain execution systems to improve their ability to satisfy demand for product from shops. But supply chain systems become confused if stock is misplaced, damaged or stolen, resulting in pick instructions being generated by a system trying to send virtual inventory which is available only within the computer system’s memory. Howard Dearing believes the answer is Supply Chain Intelligence.